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Select fables of Esop and other fabulists [electronic resource] : 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].
Eighteenth Century Collections Online II (ECCO) Available online
Eighteenth Century Collections Online II (ECCO)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aesop.
- Bachet, Claude Gaspard, Sieur de Méziriac, 1581-1638., Author.
- Shenstone, William, 1714-1763., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fables.
- Aesop.
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1786.
- Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iv,[1],6-228[i.e., 6-226],[2]p., [1]leaf of plates ) ill. ;
- Edition:
- A new edition.
- Other Title:
- Select fables of Esop and other fabulists
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets, MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]
- 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.
- Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 19455
- Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 192
- English Short Title Catalog, W6763.
- OCLC:
- 510923742
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