Select fables of Esop and other fabulists
Subtitle: In three books
By: By R. Dodsley. ; [Seven lines from Milton's Paradise lost]
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; grc
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: 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