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The instructive and entertaining fables of Pilpay, an ancient Indian philosopher, containing a number of excellent rules for the conduct of persons of all ages, and all Stations: Under several Heads. Corrected, improved, and enlarged; and adorned with near seventy cuts neatly Engraved.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bı̄dpāı̄.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fables, English--Early works to 1800.
- Fables, English.
- Genre:
- Fables.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([2],viii,[6],214,[2]p.,plates )
- Other Title:
- Instructive and entertaining fables of Pilpay,
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin : printed by George Faulkner in Essex-Street, MDCCLII. [1752]
- Notes:
- With a final advertisement leaf.
- First published in 1699 as 'The fables of Pilpay'.
- A translation by Joseph Harris of 'Les fables de Pilpay', 1698, which purported to be a translation of the Kalı̄lah wa-Dimnah, but was in fact a translation by Gilbert Gaulmin and Dāwūd Sa'ı̄d of the first four chapters of the Persian 'Anvār i Suhaylı̄'.
- Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, N8321.
- OCLC:
- 642231128
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