Select fables of Esop and other fabulists : In three books.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aesop.

Contributor:

Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Fables. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesop's fables--English--1781.

Aesop's fables.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Shepard, Joseph Amey, 1892-1916 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Cooper, Edwin (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 (autograph) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, iii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, iv-lxxviii, 130 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 133-175, 177-204 pages, 28 unnumbered pages, 23 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm

Fingerprint:

hten s-ut ims, blag (3) 1761 (A)

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Printed by John Baskerville, for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall Mall, 1761.

Notes:

Price from imprint: Price bound Five shillings.

Collected, and partly translated, partly written, by Robert Dodsley.

Includes: 'The life of Esop ..., By Mons. de Meziriac. Translated into English. With notes', and 'An essay on fable' by Robert Dodsley.

Text is continuous despite numerous errors in pagination.

Signature K4 is a cancel.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection has bookplate of Joseph Amey Shepard.

Culture Class Collection copy has label of Shepard Book Company, Salt Lake City.

Culture Class Collection copy has brief catalog description of this book pasted to the front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has the following annotation written in ms.: This the best printed of any of Bakservilles Books, and very curious it is. Dodsleys best work.

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Edwin (?) Cooper, January ?.

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Henry H. Bonnell.

Cited in:

Gaskell, 14

ESTC, T84696

OCLC:

519488554