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Select fables of Esop and other fabulists : In three books. Containing, I. Fables from the ancients. II. Fables from the moderns. III. Original fables newly invented. / By Robert Dodsley. ; [Seven lines from Milton's Paradise lost].

Format Book and Microform
EditionA new edition.
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets, MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]
Descriptioniv, 1 unnumbered page, 6-228 [i.e., 6-226], 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm (12mo)
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorAesop.
Other author/creatorDodsley, Robert, 1704-1764
Other author/creatorShenstone, William, 1714-1763.
Other author/creatorBachet, Claude Gaspard, Sieur de Méziriac, 1581-1638.
Other author/creatorThackara, James, 1767-1848 engraver.
Uniform titleAesop's fables. English.
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19455
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19455. ^A478749
General noteThe morals are given in the indices, which are by William Shenstone.
General noteSignatures: A-T⁶.
General noteError in paging: p. 205 and 206 omitted from paging.
General noteFrontispiece signed: Jas. Thackara.
General note"A new life of Esop."--p. [5]-35, translated from the French of Claude Gaspard Bachet.
General note"An essay on fable. Introduction."--p. [36]-53.
General noteBookseller's advertisement, [2] p. at end.
References Evans 19455
References Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 19.2
Reproduction noteJoyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 19455).
Genre/formJuvenile literature 1786.
Genre/formBooksellers' advertisements Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Available Items

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Joyner NC Microfiche MICROFICHE AM35E NO. 19455 ✔ Available