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Franc. Josephi Desbillons Soc. Jesu Fabulae Aesopiae, curis posterioribus, omnes fere, emendatae: accesserunt plus quam CLXX Novae, Vol. I
(Mannhemii Typis Academicis, 1768)
Bodemann #152.1. Here is a terrific find! I had known and found copies of Desbillons' work, but here is a major two-volume edition, and it was sitting for $75 at Bryn Mawr's Lantern bookshop in Georgetown. Bodemann says ...
Franc. Josephi Desbillons Soc. Jesu Fabulae Aesopiae, curis posterioribus, omnes fere, emendatae: accesserunt plus quam CLXX Novae, Vol. II
(Mannhemii Typis Academicis, 1768)
See my comments on Volume I. This volume contains Books X-XV. The illustration to X 27 is out of place at 328; it is a good illustration of the The Boy and the Nuts in a Jar. XI 16 (347) has fun. The servant who has ...
Fables of Aesop and Others. Newly done into English. With an Application to each Fable. Illustrated with Cutts.
(Printed for J. Tonson and J. WattsPrinted for J. Tonson at Shakespear's Head in the Strand, and J. Watts at the Printing Office in Wild-Court, near Lincolns-Inn Fields, 1722)
At last I have arrived at a first edition of Croxall! And it is a good copy. Bodemann #107.1. Croxall is first mentioned at the end of the dedication to Halifax. At the beginning, what is labeled The Contents of the ...
Poems, Fables, and Plays by Edward Moore
(R. and J. Dodsley/Reprint: Gregg International Publishers, 1756)
This is a photographic reproduction of a collection of works by Moore. Among them we find the same fifteen fables--and in the same order--as in my 1744 edition by R. Francklin. See my comments there. This is a sturdy ...
Fables in English and French Verse Translated from the Original Latin of Gabriel Faerno
(Claude Du BoscPrinted for C. Du Bosc and sold by C. Davis,, 1741)
Bodemann 119.1. This is the first English-French bilingual edition of Faerno. Faerno's Latin verse fables were first published in 1563, two years after his death. The preface here gives a lively account of their history ...
Cent Fables en Latin et en François, choisies des Anciens Auteurs, Mises en Vers Latins Par Gabriel Faerne et Traduites par Mr. Perrault
(C. Marsh, T. Payne, et alchez C. Marsh T. Payne, H. Slater [etc.], 1744)
Bodemann #119.3. Du Bosc took his 1741 English/French edition and made it into a 1743 Latin/French edition (Bodemann #119.2). Here new publishers one year later present a reprinting of that edition. See my comments under ...
Fables of Aesop and Others. Translated into English. With Instructive Applications and a Print before each Fable
(J.F. and C. Rivington, T. Longman, B. Law, et alPrinted for J.F. and C. Rivington B. Law, C. Dilly, [etc.],, 1786)
Except that it is in poor condition internally, it is hard to see differences between this and my eleventh edition of 1778. As there, we find here 329 pages and an index. The covers here are separating from the book. ...
Fables Choisies, mises en vers par M de la Fontaine
(Aux dépens des Libraires associés, 1790)
This long-lived little volume comes as a gift from old collector friends. It includes the first seven books of La Fontaine's fables in addition to the usual introductory material. It is very close, for these seven books, ...
Aesopi Phrygis et Aliorum Fabulae
(Vincentius Laurentii, 1781)
This tight little book is squarely in the tradition of the other books of the same title that I have listed under 1767? and 1777. This volume is missing 99-118. By comparison with the latter, the title-page here has ...
Fables by the Late Mr Gay In One Volume Complete
(W. Strahan ... [etc.]W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, J. Buckland, L. Hawes, et al., 1772)
Bodemann #110.8. Bodemann identifies the new engraver as James Taylor. These seem to be imitations of earlier themes established for Gay's fables in the early editions, especially by Wootton and Kent. See my editions ...