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Uniform Title Aesop's fables. Polyglot.
Title Æsop's fables with his life : in English, French and Latin / newly translated ; illustrated with one hundred and twelve sculptures ; to this edition are likewise added, thirty one new figures representing his life, by Francis Barlow.
Related title Aesop's fables with his life.
Publication Info London : Printed by H. Hills, Jun., for Francis Barlow, and are to be sold by Chr. Wilkinson ... Tho. Fox ... and Henry Faithorne ..., 1687.


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Descript [3], 40, 40, 17, 2-221, [2] p., 31 leaves of plates : ill.
Note 110 fables in English verse (by Mrs. Behn) and French and Latin prose, each followed by a moral.
Added engraved t.p.
The 1st ed. (largely destroyed in the London fire) published as: Aesop's fables with his life: in English, French, & Latin / the English by Tho. Philipott, Esq., the French and Latin by Rob. Codrington ... ; illustrated with one hundred and twelve sculptures by Francis Barlow. London : Printed by William Godbid for Francis Barlow, 1666.
The French text of the 1687 ed. varies greatly from the 1666 ed., and the engraved English verses beneath the plates have been entirely rewritten.
Nearly all the plates to the life are signed by Thomas Dudley.
Reproduction of original in Library of Congress.
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Series Early English books online.
Subject Aesop.
Fables.
Alt author Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689.
Barlow, Francis, 1626?-1702.
Philipot, Thomas, -1682.
Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.
Dudley, Thomas, active 1670-1687.
Aesop.
Related title Aesop's fables with his life.
Descript [3], 40, 40, 17, 2-221, [2] p., 31 leaves of plates : ill.
Note 110 fables in English verse (by Mrs. Behn) and French and Latin prose, each followed by a moral.
Added engraved t.p.
The 1st ed. (largely destroyed in the London fire) published as: Aesop's fables with his life: in English, French, & Latin / the English by Tho. Philipott, Esq., the French and Latin by Rob. Codrington ... ; illustrated with one hundred and twelve sculptures by Francis Barlow. London : Printed by William Godbid for Francis Barlow, 1666.
The French text of the 1687 ed. varies greatly from the 1666 ed., and the engraved English verses beneath the plates have been entirely rewritten.
Nearly all the plates to the life are signed by Thomas Dudley.
Reproduction of original in Library of Congress.
Series Early English books online.
Subject Aesop.
Fables.
Alt author Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689.
Barlow, Francis, 1626?-1702.
Philipot, Thomas, -1682.
Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.
Dudley, Thomas, active 1670-1687.
Aesop.
Related title Aesop's fables with his life.

Subject Aesop.
Fables.
Descript [3], 40, 40, 17, 2-221, [2] p., 31 leaves of plates : ill.
Note 110 fables in English verse (by Mrs. Behn) and French and Latin prose, each followed by a moral.
Added engraved t.p.
The 1st ed. (largely destroyed in the London fire) published as: Aesop's fables with his life: in English, French, & Latin / the English by Tho. Philipott, Esq., the French and Latin by Rob. Codrington ... ; illustrated with one hundred and twelve sculptures by Francis Barlow. London : Printed by William Godbid for Francis Barlow, 1666.
The French text of the 1687 ed. varies greatly from the 1666 ed., and the engraved English verses beneath the plates have been entirely rewritten.
Nearly all the plates to the life are signed by Thomas Dudley.
Reproduction of original in Library of Congress.
Alt author Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689.
Barlow, Francis, 1626?-1702.
Philipot, Thomas, -1682.
Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.
Dudley, Thomas, active 1670-1687.
Aesop.
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