Select tales and fables with prudential maxims and other little lessons of morality in prose and verse equally instructive & entertaining for the use of both sexes Wherein their foibles as well as beauties are presented to their view in the fairest & most inoffensive point of light. The whole embellish'd with threescore original designs, expressive of each subject, neatly engrav'd on copper plates, and publish'd according to act of Parliament. By B. Cole, engraver

People / Organizations

• Thomas Osborne II ("printed for")
• John Nourse ("printed for")

Imprint

London : Printed for T. Osborn Grays-Inn, and J. Nourse at the Lamb over against Catherine-Street, in the Strand, 1752.

Added name

Cole, Benjamin, 1696 or 1697-1783.

Publication year

1746

ESTC No.

N67747

Grub Street ID

49293

Description

2 v., plates ; 12°.

Note

The title pages are engraved

The dedication leaf in vol. 1 is engraved and signed: Benj. Cole

Vol. 2 has the imprint: London: printed for the proprietor MDCCXLVI.