Select fables of Esop and other fabulists. : In three books..
Aesop.
Bachet, Claude-Gaspard,1581-1638
Meziriac, deMonsieur
Dodsley, Robert,1704-1764.
Maude, John,18th century,former owner.StEdNL F.5.g.28
Urquhart, William,of Craigston,former owner.StEdNL SBA.224
Birmingham, : Printed by John Baskerville, for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall Mall.,
1761..
Includes: 'The life of Esop, ... By Mons. de Meziriac. Translated into English. With notes', and 'An essay on fable' by Robert Dodsley.
Misnumeration: main roman series runs i-vii vii-xxxix xli-lxxvii; arabic series runs 1-130 [131-3] 133-75 177-204. Cf. Gaskell.
Sig. K4 is a cancel.
Printed on title page: Price bound five shillings.
Contemporary armorial bookplate of John Maude on front free endpaper.
Contemporary armorial bookplate of William Urquhart of Craigston Esq. and Fort Augustus Library bookplate on front pastedown; Library pressmark label on front free endpaper: Classica B6.
Blind tooled boards with gold tooled silk pastedowns and endpapers and with gauffered gilt edges.
Gaskell, P.  Baskerville Press,
ESTC
Aesop