Fables ancient and modern
Subtitle: translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer : with orginal poems
By: by Mr. Dryden
Contributors: Cromer, Evelyn Baring, Earl of, 1841-1917, former owner; Homer; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375; Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.; Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400; Tonson, Jacob, 1656?-1736, publisher
Publisher: printed for Jacob Tonson, within Gray's Inn Gate next Gray's Inn Lane
Published: 1700
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 646
Subjects: English Fables; Fables; Translations into English
Other titles: Mr Dryden's fables
Notes: Page numbers 272-359 omitted; page 647 misnumbered as 565.

Pages [565]-646 are not mentioned in the "table"at the end of the book. These pages contain "The knight's tale", "The tale of the nun's priest", "The floure and the leafe" and "The wife of Bathe's tale" as they were written by Chaucer. Dryden's modernised versions occur earlier in the volume.

In verse.

Bookplate, dated 1912, by Henry Badeley showing the coat of arms of the Earl of Cromer.

Wing 2278

Macdonald 372
Table of contents: title: To His Grace the Duke of Ormond [dedication]; title: Preface; title: To Her Grace the Duchess of Ormond; title: Palamon and Arcite or, The knight's tale from Chaucer in three books; title: To my honour'd kinsman, John Driden of Chesterton in the county of Huntingdon, Esquire; title: Meleager and Atalanta out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphosis; title: Sigismonda and Guiscardo from Boccace; title: Baucis and Philemon out of the eighth book of Ovid's Metamorphosis; title: Pygmalion and the statue out of the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphosis; title: Cinyras and Myrrha out of the tenth book of Ovid's Metamorphosis; title: The first book of Homer's Ilias; title: The cock and the fox or, the Tale of the nun's priest, from Chaucer; title: Theodore and Honoria from Boccace; title: Ceyx and Alcyone; title: The flower and the leaf, or The lady in the arbour, a vision; title: Mr. Dryden's ode in honour of St. Cecilia's Day, 1697; title: The twelfth book of Ovid his Metamorphoses wholly translated; title: The speeches of Ajax and Ulysses from Ovid's metamorphoses, Book XIII; title: The wife of Bath, her tale; title: Of the Pythagorean philosophy from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book XV; title: The character of a good parson imitated from Chaucer and inlarg'd; title: Cymon and Iphigenia from Boccace; title: The knight's tale as it was written by Geffrey Chaucer.