Æsop's fables with his life
Subtitle: in English, French and Latin
By: newly translated ; illustrated with one hundred and twelve sculptures ; to this edition are likewise added, thirty one new figures representing his life, by Francis Barlow
Series: Early English books online; Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 339:28; Cicognara library
Publisher: Printed by H. Hills, Jun., for Francis Barlow, and are to be sold by Chr. Wilkinson ... Tho. Fox ... and Henry Faithorne ...
Published: 1687
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; fre; lat
Translated from: grc
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Fables
Other titles: Aesop's fables with his life.
Work titles: Aesop's fables Polyglot
Notes: 110 fables in English verse (by Mrs. Behn) and French and Latin prose, each followed by a moral.

Added engraved t.p.

The 1st ed. (largely destroyed in the London fire) published as: Aesop's fables with his life: in English, French, & Latin / the English by Tho. Philipott, Esq., the French and Latin by Rob. Codrington ... ; illustrated with one hundred and twelve sculptures by Francis Barlow. London : Printed by William Godbid for Francis Barlow, 1666.

The French text of the 1687 ed. varies greatly from the 1666 ed., and the engraved English verses beneath the plates have been entirely rewritten.

Nearly all the plates to the life are signed by Thomas Dudley.

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