Select tales and fables with prudential maxims and other little lessons of morality in prose and verse equally instructive & entertaining for the use of both sexes : Wherein their foibles as well as beauties are presented to their view in the fairest & most inoffensive point of light. The whole embellish'd with threescore original designs, expressive of each subject, neatly engrav'd on copper plates, and publish'd according to act of Parliament. By B. Cole, engraver.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cole, B. (Benjamin)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maxims--Early works to 1800.

Maxims.

Engraving--Early works to 1800.

Engraving.

English poetry--Early works to 1800.

English poetry.

Fables--Juvenile poetry--Early works to 1800.

Fables.

Genre:

Poems.

Fabliaux.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 v., plates ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Select tales and fables with prudential maxims and other little lessons of morality in prose and verse equally instructive & entertaining for the use of both sexes

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for T. Osborn Grays-Inn, and J. Nourse at the Lamb over against Catherine-Street, in the Strand, 1752.

Notes:

The title pages are engraved.

The dedication leaf in vol. 1 is signed: Benj. Cole.

Vol. 2 has the imprint: London: printed for the proprietor MDCCXLVI.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N67747.

OCLC:

508320692