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Fables, Greek - Early works to 1800

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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.
Aesop.Date: [1760?]
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Æsop's Fables, with their morals: in prose and verse. Grammatically translated. Illustrated with pictures and emblems. Together with the history of his life and death, newly and exactly translated out of the original Greek.
Aesop.Date: 1706
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A new translation of Æsop's fables, adorn'd with cutts; suited to the fables copied from the Frankfurt edition: by the most ingenious artist Christopher Van Sycham. The Whole being rendered in a Plain, Easy, and Familiar Style, adapted to the Meanest Capacities. Nevertheless Corrected and Reform'd from the Grossness of the Language, and Poorness of the Verse us'd in the now Vulgar Translation: The Morals also more accurately Improv'd; Together with Reflections on each Fable, in Verse. By J. J. Gent.
Aesop.Date: 1708
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Æsop's fables, with morals and reflections, as improved by Sir Roger L'Estrange, done into variety of English verse, Very useful to divert and instruct Young Gentlemen and Ladies in the Conduct of Human Life. Illustrated with cuts curiously engrav'd on copper plates.
Aesop.Date: 1720
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Æsop naturaliz'd: in a collection of diverting fables and stories from Æsop, Lockman, Pilpay and others. With useful morals and reflections: in easy and familiar verse. Adapted to all Capacities, and intended principally for the Entertainment and Instruction of the Youth of both Sexes.
Aesop.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]

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Fables, Greek - Early works to 1800

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Æsop's Fables, with their morals: in prose and verse. Grammatically translated. Illustrated with pictures and emblems. Together with the history of his life and death, newly and exactly translated out of the original Greek.

Æsop's fables, with morals and reflections, as improved by Sir Roger L'Estrange, done into variety of English verse, Very useful to divert and instruct Young Gentlemen and Ladies in the Conduct of Human Life. Illustrated with cuts curiously engrav'd on copper plates.

Æsop naturaliz'd: in a collection of diverting fables and stories from Æsop, Lockman, Pilpay and others. With useful morals and reflections: in easy and familiar verse. Adapted to all Capacities, and intended principally for the Entertainment and Instruction of the Youth of both Sexes.