The fables of Æsop, in English verse. With suitable new morals, adapted to each fable. Never before printed: containing the fable of the ass and the wolf. The bishop and the beggar. collier and the Fuller. country-man and the mouse. Devil refusing to marry. Parson, vintner and taylor. Æthiopian wash'd. Florentine and horse-courser. Fox and grapes. Kite and mouse. Parson and the pears. Young widow. Wolf and crow. sick man and priest. Sick hermit. Shepherd turn'd merchant. Pagan at mass. Marriners in a storm. And abundance more fables, too tedious to insert.

People / Organizations

• B. H. (Author)
• Anne Baldwin ("sold by")

Imprint

[London]: Sold by A[bigail]. Baldwin in Warwick-lane, price 1 s. Where is to be had, Æsop's Fables in prose with cuts, price 1 s. And every man his own gauger; teaching to gauge, Brew fine ale, beer, mum, make wines, cordials and physick ale, &c. Price 1 s., [1700]

Publication year

1700-1700

ESTC No.

R177760

Grub Street ID

69752

Description

[2], ii, [4], 98 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (woodcut) ; 8⁰

Note

Wing CD-ROM, 1996 calls this item a quarto; however, it is an octavo gathered in fours.

Place and date of publication from Wing CD-ROM, 1996.

Bookseller's name from Wing CD-ROM, 1996.

Frontis. = plate.