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Select fables of Esop and other fabulists. : In three books. / By R. Dodsley. ; [Seven lines from Milton's Paradise lost].
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 22300
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 22300.
- Standardized Title:
- Aesop's fables. English
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Aesop.
- Fables.
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1790.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- lx, that is, lviii, 218+ pages, 24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm (12mo)
- 4x6 in.
- monochrome
- service copy
- negative
- Edition:
- A new edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Printed by Joseph James, Chesnut-Street., [1790?]
- Notes:
- Probably printed in 1790. Joseph James printed alone at the Chesnut-Street address from 1787 to 1790. In 1790, he became a partner of Benjamin Johnson, who issued an edition of the Fables with these illustrations. John Vallance is listed in the 1791 Philadelphia directory and was probably active in Philadelphia in 1790, before returning to England in 1793.
- Error in paging: page numbers xlix and l omitted in pagination.
- Relief cuts signed: V, JV [i.e., John Vallance] and T, IT [i.e., James Trenchard].
- "A new life of Esop. Collected from ancient writings, by a learned friend."--p. vii-xliii.
- "An essay on fable. Introduction."--p. xliv-lx.
- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 22300).
- Cited in:
- Evans 22300
- Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 19.4
- OCLC:
- 55812893
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