Fables ancient and modern
Subtitle: translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer : with original poems
By: by Mr Dryden.
Contributors: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375; Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400; Homer.; Guest, R.R. (bookplate)
Publisher: Printed for Jacob Tonson ...
Published: 1700
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 565
Other titles: Mr Dryden's fables
Notes: Errors in paging: pages 272-558 numbered 360-646; p. 559 numbered 565.

Macdonald, 37a.

Wing, D2278.

Fisher copy 1: Half title "To her grace the Dutchess of Ormond ..." (prelim. p. [29-30]) wanting.

Fisher copy 2: Pages 129-132 mutilated.  With the book label of R.R. Guest.
Table of contents: value: Dedication.  Preface.  To her grace the Dutchess of Ormond. Palamon and Arcite; or, The knight's tale, from Chaucer.  To my honour'd kinsman, John Driden.  Meleager and Atalanta, out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphosis.  Sigismonda and Guiscardo, from Boccace.  Baucis and Philemon, out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.  Pygmalion and the statute, out of the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses.