Fables of Aesop and other eminent mythologists : with morals and reflections / by Sir Roger L'Estrange Kt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aesop.

Baarland, Adriaan van, 1486-1538.

L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.

Gordon Block Collection of Lincolniana (University of Pennsylvania)

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Fables.

Penn Provenance:

Block, Gordon (donor)

Barker, H.E. (Harry Ellsworth), 1862-1943 (bookseller)

Physical Description:

2 volumes (12 unnumbered pages, 29 pages, 11 unnumbered pages, 550 pages, 16 unnumbered pages, 266 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates) : portrait ; 20 cm (8vo)

Edition:

The seventh edition corrected.

Other Title:

Fables and stories moralized : being a second part of the fables of Aesop, and other eminent mythologists.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for D. Brown [and 8 others], 1724-1730.

Contents:

Preface

The life of Aesop

The fables of Aesop, &c.

The fables of Barlandus, &c.

The fables of Anianus [i.e. Avianus], &c.

The fables of Abstemius, &c.

The fables of Poggius

Miscellany fables

A supplement of fables.

Notes:

Engraved portrait and frontispiece.

V. 2 has title: Fables and stories moralized : being a second part of the fables of Aesop, and other eminent mythologists, &c. / by Sir Roger L'Estrange. 4th ed. London : Printed for J. and J. Knapton [and 4 others], 1730.

Local Notes:

RBC copy purchased by Gordon Block from Harry E. Barker, a dealer in Lincoln artifacts. Included is a note by Barker providing evidence for Lincoln having read this title, possibly in this edition (though not this particular copy).

Cited in:

ESTC T85874

Contains:

Avianus. Fabulae. English. 1724.

Astemio, Lorenzo. Fabulae. English. 1724.

Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459. Facetiae. Selections. English. 1724.

Aesop's fables. English. 1724.

OCLC:

3440097