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The fables of John Dryden / ornamented with engravings from the pencil of the Right Hon. Lady Diana Beauclerc.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection Folio PR3412 .B39 1797
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, xviii, 241 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 42 cm
- Other Title:
- Flower and the leaf.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by T. Bensley for J. Edwards, no. 77, and E. Harding, no. 98, Pall Mall, 1797.
- Contents:
- Preface.
- Palamon and Arcite; or, The Knight's tale [from Chaucer].
- Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace.
- The cock and the fox; or, The tale of the nun's priest, from Chaucer.
- Theodore and Honoria, from Boccace.
- The flower and the leaf; or, The lady in the arbour.
- The Wife of Bath's tale [from Chaucer].
- Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace.
- Notes:
- Four plates engraved by T. Cheesman, three by F. Bartolozzi, and one each by Vandenberg and W. N. Gardiner, all marked in the plate. Head and tail vignettes depicting putti.
- OCLC:
- 2825192
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