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Select fables of Esop and other fabulists : in three books.

Accession number
PML 142061
Published
Birmingham : Printed by John Baskerville, for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall Mall, 1761.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Collected, and partly translated, partly written by R. Dodsley.
Includes R. Dodsley's An essay on fable, and The life of Esop collected from ancient writers by Mons. De Meziriac.
The morals are given in the form of an index, which is by Shenstone.
Numerous errors in paging, including the repetition of p. vii, and the omission of p. 176 in numbering.
The vignettes are engraved by Ch. Grignion after S. Wale.
Signatures (8vo): a⁶ chi1 b-e⁸ f⁴ B-I⁸ K8(±K3) L-P⁸ Q⁴.
At foot of t.p.: Price bound Five Shillings.
Description
[2], iii, [1], lxxviii, 204, [28] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 18 cm.
Provenance
Formerly owned by T. Beale (bookplate with crest); from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Full sprinkled calf.
Classification
Department