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Bewick's Select fables of Aesop and others. In three parts to which are prefixed The life of Aesop, and An essay upon fable

Title: Bewick's Select fables of Aesop and others. In three parts to which are prefixed The life of Aesop, and An essay upon fable by Oliver Goldsmith.
Publication: London, Bickers and Son, Leicester Square, 1886.

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Description

xi, 312 p. illus.; 19 cm.

Uniform Title

Aesop's fables. English.

Alternative Title

Select fables.

Subject

Note

"Faithfully reprinted from the rare Newcastle edition published by T. Saint in 1784. With the original wood engravings by Thomas Bewick, and an illustrated preface by Edwin Pearson."

Contents

Part I.Fables extracted from Dodsley's.--Part II. Fables with reflections in prose and verse.--Part III. Fables in verse.

Call Number

ZBMA (Aesop. Bewick's select fables of Æsop)

OCLC

1126149

Title

Bewick's Select fables of Aesop and others. In three parts to which are prefixed The life of Aesop, and An essay upon fable by Oliver Goldsmith.

Imprint

London, Bickers and Son, Leicester Square, 1886.

Local Note

Gansevoort-Lansing Coll.

Added Author

Aesop.

Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828. Illustrator

Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774. Life of Aesop.

Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764.

Pearson, Edwin.

Added Title

Select fables.

Research Call Number

ZBMA (Aesop. Bewick's select fables of Æsop)