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Select fables of Aesop and other fabulists. In three books. Containing, I. Fables from the antients. II. Fables from the moderns. III. Original fables newly invented. By Robert Dodsley. [Seven lines from Milton's Paradise lost]
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1777 Aes Api 777 B32
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Aesop's fables. English
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- [2],xxviii,[1],30-162,[2],163-371,[1]p., 16leaves of plates : ill. ; 8⁰.
- Other Title:
- Ais⁻opou mythoi
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Robert Bell, in Third-Street, MDCCLXXVII. [1777]
- Notes:
- Errors in paging: p. 222, 223, 226, and 227 misnumbered 214, 215, 218, and 219.
- Plates engraved by John Norman.
- "Introduction. An essay on fable."--p. [vii]-xxviii.
- "A new life of Aesop. Collected from ancient writers. By a learned friend."--p. [255]-294.
- "Six oriental stories, entertaining and instructive."--p. [295]-371.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 15232
- Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 3542
- Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 191
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