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The fables of Æsop, in English verse : With suitable new morals, adapted to each fable. Never before printed: containing the fable of the ass and the wolf. The bishop and the beggar. Collier and the fuller country-man and the mouse. Devil refusing to marry. Parson, Vintner and Taylor. Æthopain wash'd. Florentine and horse-courser. Fox and grapes. Kite and mouse. Parson and the pears. Young window. Wolf and crow. Sick man and priest. Sick hermit. Shepherd turn'd merchant. Pagan at Mass. Marriners in a storm. And abundance more fables, too tedious to insert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aesop.
- Standardized Title:
- Aesop's fables. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fables, English--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.
- Fables, English.
- Genre:
- Poems.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([2],ii,[4],48,59-98p.,plate )
- Other Title:
- Fables of ¥sop, in English verse
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Sold by A. Baldwin in Warwick-lane, price 1s, where is to be had, Æsop's fables in prose with cuts, price 1s. and every man his own gauger; teaching to gauge, brew fine ale, beer, mum, make wines, cordials and physick ale, &c, [1701?]
- Notes:
- Text and register are continuous despite the pagination.
- Price on title page: Price 1s.
- Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, T222614.
- OCLC:
- 510672220
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