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 by Mr. Richardson.
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| Language: | English Greek, Ancient (to 1453) |
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London :
Printed for J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, L. Hawes, W. Clarke, & R. Collins, T. Caslon, S. Crowder, T. Longman, B. Lan[e], W. Nicol, R. Dodsley, G. Keith, G. Robinson, & J. Roberts, & T. Cadell,
[1760?]
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| Item Description: | Edited by Samuel Richardson, from L'Estrange's edition of Aesop's Fables. Cf. Preface. The title page is engraved. With 24 numbered plates with 10 vignettes per leaf. Includes index on [3] page sequence at beginning. The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature. |
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| Physical Description: | 2 unnumbered pages, xxxiii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 192 pages, 24 plates : illustrations ; 18 cm (12mo) |
| Place of Publication: | England -- London. |