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Select tales and fables with prudential maxims and other little lessons of morality in prose and verse equally instructive & entertaining for the use of both sexes : Wherein their foibles as well as beauties are presented to their view in the fairest & most inoffensive point of light. The whole embellish'd with threescore original designs, expressive of each subject, neatly engrav'd on copper plates, and publish'd according to act of Parliament. By B. Cole, engraver.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Maxims--Early works to 1800.
- Maxims.
- Engraving--Early works to 1800.
- Engraving.
- English poetry--Early works to 1800.
- English poetry.
- Fables--Juvenile poetry--Early works to 1800.
- Fables.
- Genre:
- Poems.
- Fabliaux.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes, plates : illustrations ; 12⁰
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for T. Osborn Grays-Inn, and J. Nourse at the Lamb over against Catherine-Street, in the Strand, 1752.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- The title pages are engraved.
- The dedication leaf in vol. 1 is signed: Benj. Cole.
- Vol. 2 has the imprint: London: printed for the proprietor MDCCXLVI.
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, N67747.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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