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Esope en belle humeur ou l'elite de ses fables enrichies de figures/Esopus bey der Lust
(Johann Christoph Kißner, 1729)
"Here is a second copy of this book, bound in a different order and lacking several of the pages in my better copy. Because it is different, I will keep it in the collection. First, what did I write about the original ...
Fables and Other Short Poems Collected from the Most Celebrated English Authors
(London: Thomas Cobb. Williamsburg reprint undated.s.n., 1731)
A wonderfully curious collection of nice moralistic rhymed fables. Almost all match Gay's titles perfectly, but these are not Gay's fables! Each has a pleasing engraving. Between the fables come samples of good handwriting, ...
Fables by the Late Mr Gay
(1783)
A beautiful little book. I am delighted at last to have a good edition of Gay's fables. T of C to both parts of fables is at the beginning of Volume II. The 66 excellent copper engravings come two-to-a-page facing the ...
Fabulae Selectae Fontanii e Gallico in Latinum Sermonem Conversae
(Lud. Le Boucher et Laurent. Duesnil, 1775)
What a kick! This book contains virtually all of La Fontaine's fables done into Latin for schoolboys by a priest of the Oratory. I have tried a few of the fables, and the Latin is good! Since the text is bilingual, one ...
Fabulae Selectae Fontanii e Gallico in Latinum Sermonem Conversae
(Laurent DumesnilLud. Le Boucher et Laurent. Duesnil, 1775)
See my overall comments on the first volume. From the last six books of La Fontaine, these fables are left out: the daughter who rejects suitors and finally desperately accepts a lout (VII 5); Thyrsis who tries to profess ...
Fables Choisies, mises en vers par M de la Fontaine
(Chez Veuve Douladoure, 1793)
A lovely old book, rebound, with one small rural scene on 1 and notes at the bottom of almost every page. The pages are rough at their edges and non-uniform in size. I think the salesperson was just telling me that they ...
Fables for the Female Sex
(Printed for R. Francklin, 1744)
See my comments under the 1744/83? reprinting of these 16 fables. I count this book something of a find. The bookstore mentioned it to me on my second visit during this brief stay in London. They did not know who had ...
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 ...
The Fables of Phaedrus translated into English prose
(Printed for the assigns of Joseph Davidson and sold by D. Browne, R. Manby, and J. Whiston and B. White,, 1753)
The book delivers exactly what its longish title promises: The Fables of Phaedrus translated into English prose, as near the original as the different idioms of the Latin and the English languages will allow. With the Latin ...
Fables Choisies, Mises en Vers par J. de la Fontaine. Tome Troisieme
(Chez François Lacombe Henri Vincent, Imprimeur,, 1792)
It pays to keep trying. I have had Volumes II and IV of this edition. Now I have filled in one of the missing two with this third volume. Bodemann #135.10. She calls it a changed reproduction of an edition going back ...