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The fables, of Æsop, with a life of the author: and embellished with one hundred & twelve plates

by Aesop
Published 1793

printed for John Stockdale Piccadilly

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A collection of pretty poems : for the amusement of children six foot high. Interspersed With a Series of Letters From Cousin Sam to Cousin Sue, On the Subjects of Criticism, Poetr...

Published 1757

[printed for the booksellers of Europe, Asia, Africa and America; and sold at the Bible and Sun in St. Paul's Church-Yard [by J. Newberry]

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Fables : in English and French verse. Translated from the original Latin of Gabriel Faerno. With one hundred copper-plates

by Faerno, Gabriello
Published 1741

printed for Claude du Bosc; and sold by C. Davis in Pater-Noster-Row

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The delights of the bottle : or, the compleat vintner. With the Humours of Bubble Upstarts. Stingy Wranglers. Dinner Spungers. Jill Tiplers. Beef Beggars. Cook Teasers. Pan Soppers...

by Ward, Edward
Published 1720

printed by W. Downing in George-Court in St. John's-Lane

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The delights of the bottle : or, the complete vintner. With the Humours of Bubble Upstarts. Stingy Wranglers. Dinner Spungers. Jill Tiplers. Beef Beggers. Cook Teasers. Pan Soppers...

by Ward, Edward
Published 1720

printed for Sam. Briscoe at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill

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The delights of the bottle : or, the complete vintner. With the Humours of Bubble Upstarts. Stingy Wranglers. Dinner Spungers. Jill Tiplers. Beef Beggers. Cook Teasers. Pan Soppers...

by Ward, Edward
Published 1720

printed for Sam. Briscoe at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill

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The delights of the bottle : or, the compleat vintner. With the Humours of Bubble Upstarts. Stingy Wranglers. Dinner Spungers. Jill Tiplers. Beef Beggars. Cook Teasers. Pan Soppers...

by Ward, Edward
Published 1720

printed for Sam. Briscoe at the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-Hill

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Æsop's fables, with morals and reflections, as improved by Sir Roger L'Estrange, done into variety of English verse, Very useful to divert and instruct Young Gentlemen and Ladies in the Conduct of Human Life. Illustrated with cuts curiously engrav'd on copper plates

by Aesop
Published 1720

printed for Edmund Parker, at the Bible and Crown in Lombard-Street

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The world turned up-side down : or the Comical Metamorphoses: a work entirely calculated to excite laughter, in grown persons, and promote moralily [sic], in the young ones, of bot...

Published 1790

printed for & sold by Ryland, at No:67. in the Old-Bailey

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The Welsh wedding : Shewing how Shon-Ap-Morgan, rode to London upon a goat to get a wife, with his comical courtship and marriage: how he was. Married to a cotton-twister, by an ol...

Published 1766

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The polite academy : or, school of behaviour for young gentlemen and ladies. Intended as a foundation for good manners and polite address, in Masters and Misses. Containing, I. The...

Published 1768

printed for R. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-Noster-Row; and B. Collins, in Salisbury

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The polite academy, or school of behaviour for young gentlemen and ladies. Intended as a foundation for good manners and polite address, in masters and misses. Containing, I. The beauty and advantages of a genteel behaviour and agreeable Complaisance. II. Some Rules and Observations, for moral Behaviour in young Ladies; very necessary to be inculcated while at the Boarding-School, in order to be practis'd when they come from it. III. Directions for good Manners, agreeable Behaviour, and polite Address, on most common Occasions in Life. IV. Some Directions for an casy genteel Carriage in Walking, Saluting, making a Curusy, Bow, and dancing the Minuet. V. Some observations on the real use and advantages of dancing, by Mr. Lock and the Chevalier de Ramsay; with some very necessary Instructions by an eminent Master. Illustrated with twelve copper-plate cuts, beautifully engraved

Published 1762

printed for R. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-Noster-Row; and B. Collins, in Salisbury

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The polite academy; or, School of behaviour for young gentlemen and ladies : Intended as a foundation for good manners and polite address, in masters and misses. Containing, I. The...

Published 1780

printed for R. Baldwin, in Pater-Noster-Row, and B.C. Cousins, in Salisbury

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The polite academy, or school of behaviour for young gentlemen and ladies : Intended as a foundation for good manners and polite address, in masters and misses. Containing, I. The...

Published 1765

printed for R. Baldwin, at the Rose in Pater-Noster-Row; and B. Collins, in Salisbury

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Select tales and fables, with prudential maxims : and other little lessons of morality, in prose and verse, equally instructive and entertaining. For the use of both sexes. Wherein...

by Cole, Benjamin
Published 1756

printed by George Faulkner, in Essex-Street

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The life and actions of Moll Flanders. Containing her birth and education in Newgate; her Ambition to be a Gentlewoman; her being taken into a Gentleman's Family; her being debauch'd by her Master's Eldest Son, and married to the Younger; her Marriage to her own Brother; her going over with him to, and settling in, Virginia; her Return to England; her Marriage to an Highwayman, who pass'd for a Person of Quality; her being reduc'd, and turning Thief; her taking some Plate from an House on Fire; her turning...

by Defoe, Daniel
Published 1723

printed and sold by T. Read, behind the Sun Tavern in Fleetstreet

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The tales and fables of the late Archbishop and Duke of Cambray : Author of Telemachus, in French and English. Written originally for the Instruction of a Young Prince; And now pub...

by Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-
Published 1736

printed for John Hawkins, and sold by John Osborn, at the Golden-Ball, in Paternoster-Row

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The female pilgrim; or, the travels of Hephzibah : Under the similitude of a dream. In which is given An historical Account of the Pilgrim's Descent, and a Description of her nativ...

by Mitchell, John
Published 1800

London: printed [by H. Richardson, Berwick,] for William Baynes No. ... Pater-Noster-Row

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Fables of ¡sop, and other allegorical writers : Translated into English: with proper applications, and a suitable design to each fable. By Samuel Croxall, D.D. also, an essay on th...

by Aesop
Published 1787

Printed by John Exshaw, No. 98, Grafton-Street

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Omar and Zemira: An eastern tale. Founded on the piety of the Asiatics

by Yeo, James
Published 1791

Printed for the author by Walter Mowbray

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