A new translation of Æsop's fables, adorn'd with cutts; suited to the fables copied from the Frankfurt edition: by the most ingenious artist Christopher Van Sycham. The Whole being rendered in a Plain, Easy, and Familiar Style, adapted to the Meanest Capacities. Nevertheless Corrected and Reform'd from the Grossness of the Language, and Poorness of the Verse us'd in the now Vulgar Translation: The Morals also more accurately Improv'd; Together with Reflections on each Fable, in Verse. By J. J. Gent.
- Aesop.
- Date:
- 1708
- Books
- Online
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About this work
Also known as
Aesop's fables. English
Ais−opou mythoi
Publication/Creation
London : printed for Tho. Tebb, Bookseller in Little-Britain; and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1708.
Physical description
[6],iii-lxxi,[1],288,[8]p.,plate : ill. ; 120.
Contributors
References note
ESTC T129473
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.