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Fables ancient and modern / translated into verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer, with orginal poems, by Mr. Dryden.
Van Pelt - Microtext STC II Reel 1503:7.
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
- Series:
- Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1503:7.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 42 unnumbered pages, 646, that is, 558 pages, 2 unnumbered pages
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., MDCC [1700]
- Contents:
- Preface
- To Her Grace the Dutchess of Ormonde
- Palamon and Arcite ... from Chaucer
- To my honour'd kinsman John Driden
- Meleager and Atalanta ... Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace
- Baucis and Philemon ... Pygmalion and the statue ... Cinyras and myrrhas, The first book of Homer's Ilias
- The cock and the fox ... from Chaucer
- Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace
- Ceyx and Alcyone
- The flower and the leaf ... Mr. Dryden's ode in honour of St. Cecilia's Day, 1697
- The twelfth book of Ovid his Metamorphoses ... The speeches of Ajax and Ulysses, ... The wife of Bath, her tale
- Of the Pythagorean philosophy ... The character of a good parson / imitated from Chaucer and inlarg'd
- The monument of a fair maiden lady ... Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace
- The knight's tale / ... written by Geffrey Chaucer
- The tale of the nun's priest / ... written by Geffrey Chaucer
- The floure and the leafe / ... written by Geffrey Chaucer
- The wife of Bathe's tale / ... written by Geffrey Chaucer.
- Notes:
- In verse.
- Half title page reads : Mr. Dryden's fables.
- "To His Grace the Duke of Ormond" signed: John Dryden.
- Error in paging: p. 272-359 omitted.
- Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1984. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1503:7)
- Cited in:
- Wing D2278.
- OCLC:
- 12289966
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