Fables in verse : for the improvement of the young and the old / by Abraham Æsop, Esq. To which are added, fables in verse and prose; with The conversation of birds and beasts ... / by Woglog the great giant ... And with an account of the lives of the authors / by their old friend Mr. Newbery.

Accession number:

PML 83731

Author:

Aesop, Abraham, Esq.

Published:

London : Printed for the booksellers of all nations, and sold at number 65, in St. Paul's Church-yard [Thomas Carnan], 1783.

Description:

vi, 7-138, [6] p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 12 cm

Credit:

Gift of Elisabeth Ball, 1965.

Notes:

At foot of t.p.: Price 6d. bound.
Booklist "Printed for T. Carnan" on p. 138 and p. [1]-[6] at end.
PML copy: wanting p. 51-2, 57-8.
Some illustrations partly hand-colored.
The identity of "Abraham Aesop" is unclear: he has been erroneously identified as John Oakman.

Binding:

Red-on-buff printed pictorial boards.

Provenance:

Elisabeth Ball.

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Department:

Printed Books