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Aesop's Fables. With Instructive Morals and Reflections Abstracted from all Party Considerations, Adapted To All Capacities; and design'd to promote Religion, Morality, and Universal Benevolence
(J. Rivington, R.Baldwin, L. Hawes, W. Clarke, R. Collins, T. Caslon, J. (S?) Crowder, T. Longman, B. Law, R. Withy, J. Dodsley, G. Keith, G. Robinson, J. Roberts, T. Cadellprinted for J. Rivington R. Baldwin, L. Hawes, W. Clark ... [et al.],, 1747)
This is my third early copy of this book. I have dated the first of my other two copies 1740/53? It was published by Wilson and Spence in York and it is Bodemann #131.2. I dated my second copy 1740/61? It was published ...
A New Translation of Æsop's Fables, Adorn'd with Cutts
(Printed for Tho. TebbTho(mas) Tebb, 1708)
The title continues Suited to the Fables Copied from the Frankfurt Edition. By the Most Ingenious Artist Christopher Van Sycham. The Whole being rendered in a Plain, Easy, and Familiar Style, adapted to the Meanest ...
A New Translation of Æsop's Fables, Adorn'd with Cutts
(Tho(mas) Tebb/Gale Ecco Print Editions, 1708)
Here is apparently a print-on-demand facsimile found at a sharply reduced price. I ordered the book after I enjoyed cataloguing the original. Before I include my comments from that book, I have a theory that the xerox ...
Le Nouvel Esope: Fables Choisies
(Chez la Veuve Delormel et FilsDelormel & Fils, 1749)
Twenty-six rhyming verse fables on 52 pages. Marbled paper covers. No introductory or concluding material other than a colophon on the last page indicating various permissions and a registration. There are printer's ...
Ésope, Grec et Latin, traduit en Français
(De l'imprimerie de Delance, 1796)
First volume of a four-volume set. Contemporary calf, somewhat rubbed. Marbled endpapers. Almost nothing of the spine decoration or title is left on this volume. Here are 149 trilingual fables, with an appendix of 28 ...
Sittenlehre für die Jugend in den auserlesensten aesopischen Fabeln
(Weidmannische Handlung/Insel Verlag, 1757)
I already have a pair of German editions representing the original German texts and illustrations of the 1757 translation of Samuel Richardson's 1749 London edition, Aesop's Fables, with Instructive Morals and Reflections, ...
Nouveau Recueil des Fables d'Esope, Mises en François.
(Charles LeClercchez C. Le Clerc ..., 1731)
This lovely little book has one of those endless titles. Here is more of it: Avec le Sens Moral en quatre Vers & des Figures à chaque Fable. Dedié a la Jeunesse. Nouvelle Edition, augmentée des Quatrains du Sieur de ...
Äsopische Fabeln mit moralischen Lehren und Betrachtungen
(HennselHenssel, 1757)
Delightful edition with morals and applications, sometimes after a pair of fables. Lessing's prose is a pleasure to read. Each copperplate contains six small engravings, simple and ordinary, numbered to match the fables. ...
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 ...
Mythoi Aisopou: Aesopi Fabulae Graeco-Latinae
(Apud J. Pote bibliopolam,, 1749)
Unusual bilingual reader: The 144 Greek fables are given first, with helpful and extensive Latin notes right after the individual Greek fable. After 122, we start over again with the very same 144 fables in Latin, this ...