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Favole Di Giovanni Gherardo De Rossi
(Nella Stamperia Pagliarini, 1788)
Beautiful engraving in the middle of the title-page leads into this collection of 70 Italian fables delivered on the occasion of a wedding. T of C at the rear. I can find no mention of De Rossi in McKendry, Hobbs, or ...
Fables Choisies de John Gay
(chez Prault Imprimeur du Roi, quai des Augustins à l'Immortalité,, 1784)
What a great curiosity! 27 of Gay's fables put into French in a beautiful book with leather covers, marbled endpapers, a bookmark, and a nice errata sheet after the T of C at the end. Ed Just has tried to explain to me ...
Fables by the Late Mr Gay
(J. Buckland, J.F. and C. Rivington, et alPrinted for J. Buckland etc.,, 1788)
Graham has no hesitation in claiming that this is a first edition of Bewick's fables for Gay. Bodemann #166.1 points out that these very publishers did produce the first edition of Thomas Bewick's illustrations for Gay's ...
Fables Choisies Mises en Vers par M. de la Fontaine avec la Vie d'Esope, Tome Troisième
(La Compagnie des Libraires; L'Imprimerie de Pierre Prault, 1729)
Bodemann 77.12. This is the third of three volumes, covering Books X-XII. The 12 in Bodemann's catalogue indicates that this edition is one of many that copied Chauveau's illustrations from the first edition of La ...
The Tales and Fables of the late Archbishop and Duke of Cambray, Author of Telemachus, in French and English
(And sold by John Osborn at the Golden-Ball, in Paternoster-Row,Printed for John Hawkins, and Sold by John Osborn, 1736)
The title continues: Written originally for the Instruction of a Young PRINCE, And now publish'd for the Use of SCHOOLS. To which is prefix'd, An Account of the Author's LIFE, extracted from the Memoir's of the Chevalier ...
The Tales and Fables of the late Archbishop and Duke of Cambray, Author of Telemachus, in French and English
(Printed for John Hawkins, and Sold by John Osborn, 1736)
Identical with another volume in the collection with the same bibliographical data, except that this copy is bound with Fables and Tales from La Fontaine, published by Bettsworth and Hitch in 1734. See my comments on the ...
Fables and Tales from La Fontaine in French and English Now First Translated, To which is prefix'd the Author's Life
(Printed for A. Bettsworth and C. Hitch and C. Davis, 1734)
I quote from my favorite private collector (F-0405, with a duplicate C-159): An attractive edition with the text in French and English on facing pages. Not illustrated, but decorated throughout with a great variety of ...
The Fable of the Bees: Or Private Vices, Publick Benefits
(Original Fourth Edition: London: J. Tonson. Reprint: Seattle: Entropy Conservationists., 1732)
I read this work over a Big Mac in Boulder and enjoyed it! Originally the bees were full of vices and they were thriving. Their crimes conspired to make them great (5). Then Jove removed fraud, and there were surprising ...
Aesopi Phrygis et Aliorum Fabulae
(Dominici LouisaeSumptibus Dominici Lovisae, 1780)
This little book belongs with three others in the collection, all with the same title and all by different publishers. They are listed under 1757? and 1777 and 1781. The publishers are Johannis Antonii Remondini in ...
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 ...