Select fables of Esop and other fabulists.
Subtitle: In three books.
By: By R. Dodsley. ; [Seven lines from Milton's Paradise lost]
Contributors: Aesop.; Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764.; Vallance, J. 1770-1823.; Trenchard, James, b. 1747.
Edition: A new edition.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 22300.
Publisher: Printed by Joseph James, Chesnut-Street.
Published: 1790
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Aesop.; Fables.
Work titles: Aesop's fables. English.
Notes: Probably printed in 1790. Joseph James printed alone at the Chesnut-Street address from 1787 to 1790. In 1790, he became a partner of Benjamin Johnson, who issued an edition of the Fables with these illustrations. John Vallance is listed in the 1791 Philadelphia directory and was probably active in Philadelphia in 1790, before returning to England in 1793.

Signatures: A-U⁶ W⁶ X-Y⁶ 2A-2B⁶.

Error in paging: page numbers xlix and l omitted in pagination.

Relief cuts signed: V, JV [i.e., John Vallance] and T, IT [i.e., James Trenchard].

"A new life of Esop. Collected from ancient writings, by a learned friend."--p. vii-xliii.

"An essay on fable. Introduction."--p. xliv-lx.

Evans 22300.

Welch, d'A.A.  Amer. children's books, 19.4.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 22300).