Histories, fables, allegories, and characters, selected from the Spectator and Guardian; : Peculiarly adapted to form young minds to a love of virtue, and an abhorrence of vice; viz. Inkle and Yarico. Laeitia and Daphne. Socrates and physiognomist. Endoxus and Leontine. Constantia and Theodosius. An atheistical author sick. Herod and Mariamne. Eginhart and Imma. Renegado and Castilian. Dervise and K. of Tartary. The drop of water, a fable. Two Westminster scholars. The reduced citizen. Madam de Villacerse. Basilius and Alexandrinus. Amazon commonwealth. Gypsy an ambassador. Chremylus and Plutus. Biton and Clitobus. Rhynsault's just punishment. Sultan Mahmoud and visier. Amb. of Bantam's letter. Persian glass-man, a fable. Fadlallah and Zemroude. Infidel Sultan and doctor. On providence, a tradition. Pleasure and pain, a fable. Menippus and Jupiter. Persian Sultan's justice. Timoleon and providence. Androcles & Numidian lion. Fr. Nobleman and children. Santon Barsissa and devil. R.T.'s angel and her maid. Helim the great physician. The knight made virtuous. Eugenius, or The charitable man. Lycurgus, or The father of his family. Timogenes, or false honour. Syncopius, the passionate..
Mayhew, Benjamin,18th century,former owner.StEdNL
Mayhew, Frederick,18th century,former owner.StEdNL
Mayhew, Richard,18th century,former owner.StEdNL
Glasgow: : Printed for the proprietors.,
MDCCLIX. [1759]
Frontispiece illustration.
The "B" gathering is not missing, the register is incorrect.
Some of the tales are definitely from the periodicals cited (a version of "Inkle and Yarico" appeared in "The Spectator" in March 1711). The whole work was a fairly blatant act of copyright infringement presumably initiated in Manchester by Robert Whitworth, with amendments where required to make the literary originals suitable for a younger audience. This edition is a Glasgow piracy of a London edition of a Manchester piracy, rewritten for children from adult material.
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Contemporary manuscript signature "Benjamin Mayhew" on the recto of the frontispiece. Signature of "Frederick Mayhew" at the bottom of the frontispiece. Signature of "Richard Mayhew" on the verso of the title page.
Allegories
Fables, English
Scotland Glasgow.