Fables. Select Tales and Fables with Prudential Maxims and other Little Lessons of Morality in Prose and Verse Equally Instructive & Entertaining For the use of Both Sexes wherein Their Foibles as well as Beauties are presented to their View in the fairest & most inoffensive point of Light. The whole embellish'd with Threescore Original Designs, expressive of each Subject, neatly engrav'd on Copper Plates, and publish'd according to Act of Parliament. By B. Cole, Engraver, 2 volumes in one, London: F. Wingrave, successor to Mr. Nourse, [1780?], engraved title-page to each volume, volume 1 with dedication leaf facing title (early manuscript inscription on reverse), engraved emblematic frontispiece misbound in volume 2 (following and facing title), 60 engravings on 30 leaves, plates IX/X and XVII/XVIII in second volume substituted one for the other, and leaves [i]-iv volume 2 misbound preceding Preface in volume 1, some toning and dust-soiling, several plates detached, 1 plate with very small closed tear, hinges cracked, and front board pulling away, endpapers soiled, old catalogue entry mounted on rear pastedown, blue sprinkled edges, original cloth-backed marbled boards, worn, with loss to spine ends and upper edge of rear board, 12mo (Qty: 1) ESTC T127913. First published in 1746, all editions appear to be strangely scarce. The first volume contains 6 alphabets.
Fables. Select Tales and Fables with Prudential Maxims and other Little Lessons of Morality in Prose and Verse Equally Instructive & Entertaining For the use of Both Sexes wherein Their Foibles as well as Beauties are presented to their View in the fairest & most inoffensive point of Light. The whole embellish'd with Threescore Original Designs, expressive of each Subject, neatly engrav'd on Copper Plates, and publish'd according to Act of Parliament. By B. Cole, Engraver, 2 volumes in one, London: F. Wingrave, successor to Mr. Nourse, [1780?], engraved title-page to each volume, volume 1 with dedication leaf facing title (early manuscript inscription on reverse), engraved emblematic frontispiece misbound in volume 2 (following and facing title), 60 engravings on 30 leaves, plates IX/X and XVII/XVIII in second volume substituted one for the other, and leaves [i]-iv volume 2 misbound preceding Preface in volume 1, some toning and dust-soiling, several plates detached, 1 plate with very small closed tear, hinges cracked, and front board pulling away, endpapers soiled, old catalogue entry mounted on rear pastedown, blue sprinkled edges, original cloth-backed marbled boards, worn, with loss to spine ends and upper edge of rear board, 12mo (Qty: 1) ESTC T127913. First published in 1746, all editions appear to be strangely scarce. The first volume contains 6 alphabets.
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