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A Greek Reader, Selected Chiefly from Jacobs' Greek Reader, Adapted to Bullions' Greek Grammar.
(Pratt, Oakley & Company, 1859)
The very first readings offered (91-96) are twenty-two of Aesop's fables, including a last one in verse. The notes for these texts are on 218-221. See the parallel edition for Latin, listed under 1854. The publisher has ...
The First Part of Jacobs Latin Reader: Adapted to Bullions' Latin Grammar.
(Pratt Woodford, Farmer & Brace,, 1854)
Inscribed in 1857. Perhaps first published in 1846, the date included on the back of the title-page. Compare this book with my 1849/65 edition-and read my comments there. That book adds Döring as an author and is adapted ...
The First Part of Jacobs and Döring's Latin Reader: Adapted to Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar and to Andrews' First Latin Book
(Crocker and Brewster, 1849)
A fascinating approach to pedagogy 140 years ago. After introductory exercises, this book turns to nineteen pages (31-49) of some fifty-three fables, the last four in verse. The bottom of each page contains copious ...
Phaedri Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque, quales omni parte illustratos publicavit Joann. Gottlob. Sam. Schwabe. Accedunt Romuli Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quatuor, quibus novas Phaedri Fabellas cum notulis variorum et suis subjunxit J. B. Gail.
(Colligebat Nicolaus Eligius LemaireN.E. Lamaire, 1819)
Apparently Jean Baptiste Gail took the ample 1806 edition of Johann Samuel Schwabe and made it even more ample. The T of C at the end of this volume is itself exhausting as it moves through manuscripts, editions, and ...
Phaedri Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque, quales omni parte illustratos publicavit Joann. Gottlob. Sam. Schwabe. Accedunt Romuli Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quatuor, quibus novas Phaedri Fabellas cum notulis variorum et suis subjunxit J. B. Gail.
(N.E. Lamaire, 1819)
See the comments on the first volume. This second expansive volume includes, as its closing T of C shows, three sets of fables beyond Phaedrus': an independent appendix, Perotti's appendix, and the fables of Romulus. ...