The fables of Aesop
paraphras'd in verse (1668)
by Aesop, Joseph Jacobs, Roger L'Estrange, and Percy J. Billinghurst
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The world's oldest known collection of fables and folk tales. Some of the stories credited to Aesop, a Greek slave who lived in about the sixth century BCE, are known in every corner of the globe, such as 'The Tortoise and the Hare' and 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'. Other familiar tales are 'The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs', 'The Fox and the Grapes' and ''The Ant and the Grasshopper'.
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The fables of Aesop: paraphras'd in verse (1668)
1965, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California
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Edition Notes
"A photographic reprint of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library copy of the folio of 1668."
"A special publication of the Augustan Reprint Society."
Bibliographical references included in "Notes to the introduction" (p. xiii-xiv).
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