Select fables of Esop and other fabulists.
Subtitle: In three books. Containing, I. Fables from the ancients. II. Fables from the moderns. III. Original fables newly invented.
By: By Robert Dodsley. ; [Seven lines from Milton's Paradise lost]
Contributors: Aesop.; Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764.; Shenstone, William, 1714-1763.; Bachet, Claude Gaspard, Sieur de Méziriac, 1581-1638.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 45467.
Publisher: Printed and sold by Peter Stewart, in Second-Street, ninth door above Chesnut-Street.
Published: 1789
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Aesop.; Fables.
Work titles: Aesop's fables. English.
Notes: The morals are given in the indices, which are by William Shenstone.

Signatures: A-M¹²⁻⁶.

"A new life of Esop."--p. [5]-24. Translated from the French of Claude Gaspard Bachet.

"An essay on fable. Introduction."--p. [25]-42.

Bookseller's advertisement, p. [216].

Bristol B6938.

Shipton & Mooney 45467.

Welch, d'A.A.  Amer. children's books, 19.3.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 45467).