Fables, English - Early works to 1800
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An address to the Worshipful Company of Barbers in Oxford occasioned by a late infamous libel, intitled, The barber and fireworks, a fable, highly reflecting on one of the honourable members. By a barber.
Barber.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCXLIX. [1749]- E-books
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Æsop's fables With his life, morals, and remarks. Fitted for the meanest capacities. To which are added, five other fables in prose and verse.
AesopDate: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- E-books
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The ancient and delightful history of Reynard the Fox Being newly corrected and purged from all grossness in phrase and mattter. As also augmented and enlarged with sundry new cuts, and excellent Morals and Expositions on each Chapter.
Date: 1738- E-journals
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The instructive and entertaining fables of Pilpay, an ancient Indian philosopher . Containing a number of excellent rules for the conduct of persons of all ages, and in all stations: under several heads.
Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- E-books
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Tales and fables, in French and English. Written originally for the instruction of a young prince, by Fr. de Salignac de la Motte Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray, and translated by the late D. Bellamy, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn
F�enelon, Fran�cois de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715.Date: 1789