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Fables by the late Mr Gay. In two volumes
(Printed for Alexander McKenzie, 1755)
This little book of 192 pages, about 4 x 6½, has leather covers -- the front cover is separated -- and marbled endpapers. There is a 1922 owner's signature on the front endpaper. Light pencil marks in the text highlight ...
Aisopou Mythoi/Fabulae Aesopicae Graecae Quae Maximo Planudi Tribuuntur
(Apud Io. Georg. Ernst. Wittekindt, 1776)
The full title reads this way: Aisopou mythoi Fabulae Aesopicae Graecae quae Maximo Planudi tribuuntur ad veterum librorum fidem emendatas Ioannis Hudsonis suisque adnotationibus illustratas atque indice verborum locupletissimo ...
Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists. In Three Books
(J. Dodsley, 1767)
I feel as though I have been through this history before but have forgotten too much of it! Here is a 1767 Dodsley in good condition except for its separated front cover. It was published by J. Dodsley in Pall-mall in ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Tome Premier
(L'Imprimerie de Didot l'A?né, 1787)
Bodemann seems to say that Didot did a major four-volume illustrated edition of this very size (about 3 x 5) in 1787. This present two-volume set may be the texts of that edition arranged now as part of a series: Collection ...
Fables de La Fontaine, Tome Second
(L'Imprimerie de Didot l'A?né, 1787)
Bodemann seems to say that Didot did a major four-volume illustrated edition of this very size (about 3 x 5) in 1787. This present two-volume set may be the texts of that edition arranged now as part of a series: Collection ...
Fables and Other Short Poems Collected from the Most Celebrated English Authors
(London: Thomas Cobb. Reproduced by The Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H. Smith Collections, Toronto Public Library, 1731)
Here is an extra copy in excellent condition. This book adds Volumes II and III to my 1731/1975? book from Williamsburg. Volume II includes ten fables, assorted other material, and A New Introduction to the Art of Drawing. ...
Sixty Amusing and Instructive Fables in French and English
(Printed for E. Johnson, 1773)
The title-page continues: Divided into Sections, and the Two Languages answering almost verbatim for the Greater Conveniency of Learners. The Whole adorned with Cuts. Designed principally for Schools. This is a lovely ...
Fables Choisies Mis en Vers par Monsieur de La Fontaine
(J. Samuel Cailler, 1772)
I consider this one of the best finds of an unusually successful trip to Europe. I had finished at Picard and stopped next door at a shop supposedly dealing rather in technical books. The shopkeeper found this one book ...
Phaedri Augusti Liberti et Fl. Aviani Fabulae
(Ex Typographia Pauli Severini, 1792)
The title goes on Accedunt Fabulae Graecae Latinis respondentes et Homeri Batrachomyomachia cum Latina Versione Recens Addita. In usum Scholarum Seminarii Patavini. Busy title-page! Hoogstraten did his edition, beautifully ...
Fables de Phedre Avec la construction du Texte et la Version interlinéaire
(Chez les Freres Perisse, 1790)
The title continues: auxquelles on a joint les Fables que La Fontaine a imitées de cet Auteur. The same title page also adds a l'usage des Eleves de la Pension établie a Lyon, par. l'Abbé Prodon. Two doves grace the ...