Æsop'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 : containing two hundred and forty fables, with a cut engrav'd on copper to each fable, and the Life of Æsop prefixed.
Accession number:
PML 84806
Uniform title:
Aesop's fables. English.
Published:
London : Printed for J. Osborn, Jun'r. ..., 1740 [i.e. 1739]
Description:
xxxiv, [2], 192 p., 25 leaves of plates (plus t.p.) : ill. (copperplate engravings) ; 18 cm. (12mo)
Notes:
Published November 20, 1739 (Daily Advertiser).
Edited by Samuel Richardson.
Engraved title page; first leaf of ill. not numbered.
Signatures: A¹²a⁶B-I¹²
Binding:
Calf.
Provenance:
Bookplate of Dalton Haskoll Serrell, Haddon Lodge, Dorset.
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