Just publish'd fitted as well for ye use of schools, as for private families. Æsop's fables. With instructive morals and reflections, abstracted from all party considerations, adapted to all capacities; and design'd to promote religion, morality, and universal benevolence. Containing two hundred and forty fables, with a cut engrav'd on copper to each fable. And the life of Æsop prefixed.
John Osborn (d.1775)
Category
Books
Date
Unknown
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3211063
Summary
Bibliographic description
1 sheet ([2] p.) : ill. ; 18 x 11 cm. Running number: 6107. Inserted loose between plates 74-75 in vol. 1 of 'Gemme antiche figurate' (Rome, 1707-1709). Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf of larger work into which this advertisement has been inserted: "M. 4. vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: loose single sheet, without binding.
Makers and roles
John Osborn (d.1775), engraver and publisher Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE) Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)