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Select Fables of Aesop and Others
(Printed by and for T. Saint, 1784)
If this is what I hope it is, what a find! Only two things made me hesitate earlier to acknowledge this book as an original 1784 Bewick. First, Thomas (and John) Bewick are nowhere named. Second, I have a note from ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...