A new translation of Æsop's Fables, adorn'd with cutts; suited to the Fables copied from the Frankfort edition: by the Most Ingenious Artist Christopher van Sycham. The Whole being redered 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 accuratel improv'd; together with reflections on each fable, in verse. By Joseph Jackson, Med.
- Aesop.
- Date:
- 1708
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About this work
Also known as
Aesop's fables. English
Ais−opou mythoi
Publication/Creation
London : printed for Tho. Tebb, Bookseller in Little-Britain; and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1708.
Physical description
[6],lxxi,[1],288,[8]p. : ill. ; 120.
Contributors
References note
ESTC T181719
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.