A Selection of fables from the best English writers, containing the largest collection ever published
Subtitle: selected from Dryden, Swift, Wilkie, Whitehead, Cotton, Merrick, Shenitone [!]; Garrick, Smart; Somerville, Peter Pindar, &c. &c. &c. including all the fables of Gay and Moore.
Contributors: Moore, Edward, 1712-1757.; Gay, John, 1685-1732.; Milns, William, 1761-1801.; American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for the editor
Published: 1798
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Fables, English.
Other titles: Columbian Library, containing a classical selection of British literature. Vol. II Fables
Notes: Evans 34112
Possibly compiled by William Milns.
Added t.p., engr., with vignette, has imprint: New York, Printed and published by W. Milns, no. 29 Gold St., 1797.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-Q⁶ R² (12mo); S-U⁴ ²U⁴ ²T⁴ W⁴ X-2G⁴ 2H⁴ (8vo).
Numbers 95-96 repeated in last sequence of pagination.
Moore's fables: p. 116-184; Gay's fables: 133 p. at end.
LC copy lacks final blank leaf.