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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].
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 19455
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19455.
- Standardized Title:
- Aesop's fables. English
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Aesop.
- Fables.
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1786.
- Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- iv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 6-228, that is, 6-226 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm (12mo)
- 4x6 in.
- monochrome
- service copy
- negative
- Edition:
- A new edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets., MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]
- Notes:
- The morals are given in the indices, which are by William Shenstone.
- Error in paging: p. 205 and 206 omitted from paging.
- Frontispiece signed: Jas. Thackara.
- "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.
- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19455).
- Cited in:
- Evans 19455
- Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 19.2
- OCLC:
- 55812819
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