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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].
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- Author/Creator:
- Aesop.
- Bachet, Claude-Gaspard, 1581-1638, author.
- Shenstone, William, 1714-1763, author.
- Series:
- Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesop.
- Fables.
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1786.
- Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- iv pages, 1 unnumbered page,6-228, that is, 6-226 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 12⁰
- Edition:
- A new edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets, MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- 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.
- 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 Library of Congress.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 19455
- Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 192
- English Short Title Catalog, W6763.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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