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Select tales and fables with prudential maxims and other little lessons of morality in prose and verse equally instructive & entertaining for the use of both sexes : Wherein their foibles as well as beauties are presented to their view in the fairest & most inoffensive point of light. The whole embellish'd with threescore original designs, expressive of each subject, neatly engrav'd on copper plates, and publish'd according to act of Parliament. By B. Cole, engraver.

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Corporate Author:	Gale (Firm)
Other Authors:	Cole, B. (Benjamin)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed for T. Osborn Grays-Inn, and J. Nourse at the Lamb over against Catherine-Street, in the Strand, 1752.
Subjects:	Maxims > Early works to 1800. Engraving > Early works to 1800. English poetry > Early works to 1800. Fables > Juvenile poetry > Early works to 1800. Electronic books. Poems. Fabliaux.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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