BEWICK’S SELECT FABLES.
Reading edition
“Is not the earth With various living creatures, and the air Replenished, and all those at thy command To come and play before thee? Knowest thou not Their language and their ways? They also know, And reason not contemptibly: with these Find pastime.” —Paradise Lost, b. viii. l. 370.
The above appeared on the titles of both the 1776 and 1784 editions of “Select Fables,” T. Saint, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Bewick’s Select Fables OF ÆSOP AND OTHERS.
In Three Parts.
I. Fables extracted from Dodsley’s. II. Fables with Reflections in Prose and Verse. III. Fables in Verse.
TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED THE LIFE OF ÆSOP, AND AN ESSAY UPON FABLE BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
Faithfully Reprinted from the Rare Newcastle Edition published by T. Saint in 1784.
With the Original Wood Engravings by Thomas Bewick, AND AN Illustrated Preface by Edwin Pearson.
LONDON: BICKERS & SON, 1 LEICESTER SQUARE, W.C.
PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY EDINBURGH AND LONDON
Thomas Bewick
Engraver on Wood.
Jaˢ. Ramsay Pinxᵗ. Henry Hoppner Meyer Sculpᵗ.
