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Reading edition
Newcastle 1st. October 1818 To Thomas Bewick & Son Dr., To an Impl. Copy of Esop’s Fables 1£ 11s 6d
Received the above with thanks
Thomas Bewick Robert Elliot Bewick
Thomas Bewick
his Mark
THE FABLES OF ÆSOP, AND OTHERS, WITH DESIGNS ON WOOD,
BY THOMAS BEWICK.
“The wisest of the Ancients delivered their Conceptions of the Deity, and their Lessons of Morality, in Fables and Parables.”

NEWCASTLE:
PRINTED BY E. WALKER, FOR T. BEWICK AND SON. SOLD BY THEM, LONGMAN AND CO. LONDON, AND ALL BOOKSELLERS. 1818.

Wise Men think Good Men Grieve Knaves invent and Fools believe.