Select fables of Esop and other fabulists In three books. Containing, I. Fables from the ancients. II. Fables from the moderns. III. Original fables newly invented. By Robert Dodsley. [Seven lines from Milton's Paradise lost]
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia
Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets
1786, MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]
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| Edition: | A new edition |
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | "A new life of Esop."--p. [5]-35, translated from the French of Claude Gaspard Bachet. - "An essay on fable. Introduction."--p. [36]-53. - Bookseller's advertisement, [2] p. at end. - English Short Title Catalog, W6763. - Error in paging: p. 205 and 206 omitted from paging. - Evans, 19455. - Frontispiece signed: Jas. Thackara. - Reproduction of original from Library of Congress. - The morals are given in the indices, which are by William Shenstone. - Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 192 |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (iv,[1],6-228[i.e., 6-226],[2]p., [1]leaf of plates) ill 12° |