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. Second edition with additions. By J. J. Gent.
- Aesop.
- Date:
- 1715
- Books
- Online
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About this work
Also known as
Aesop's fables. English
Ais−opou mythoi
Publication/Creation
London : printed for Tho. Tebb. at the Flower de Luce in Little Britain; and Tho. King, in Petty France, Booksellers, 1715.
Physical description
lxx,256,[10]p. : ill. ; 120.
Contributors
References note
ESTC T84997
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.