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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Reference Library
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Gay, John, 1685–1732
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Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
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Northcote, James, 1746–1831
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Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
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Rowe, Henry, -1819
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Spence, Joseph, 1699–1768
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Accessible by appointment in the Reference Library
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unknown
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19th century
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18th century
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17th century
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20th century
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wood engraving
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aquatint
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metamorphic picture
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prospectuse
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publishers' advertisement
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recreation
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steel engraving
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Fables.
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Baldwin, R. -- Publisher.
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Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. -- Printer.
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Bent, W. -- Publisher.
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Cadell, T. -- Publisher.
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Gardner, H. L. -- Publisher.
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Johnson, J. -- Publisher.
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Lowndes, W. -- Publisher.
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Newbery, E. -- Publisher.
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Rivington, F. and C. -- Publisher.
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Robinson, G. G. and J. -- Publisher.
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Scatcherd, J. -- Publisher.
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Sewell, J. -- Publisher.
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Walker, J. -- Publisher.
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Ackermann, R. -- Publisher
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Aesop -- Translations into English.
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Aesop's fables -- Illustrations.
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Aesop.
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Amusements -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
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Animals -- Folklore.
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19th century
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Edinburgh (Scotland)
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Great Britain
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Halifax (Nova Scotia)
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Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
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York (England)
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Associated People
Aesop
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Northcote, James, 1746–1831
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Exhibition History
Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977)
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Picture Talking: James Northcote and the Fables (Yale Center for British Art, October 2, 2014-December 14, 2014)
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Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
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English
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Fables of Aesop
1837
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Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
The fables of Aesop paraphras'd in verse
1668
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The fables of Aesop
4th June 1793
4
Spence, Joseph, 1699–1768
Moralities: or, Essays, letters, fables;
1753
5
Northcote, James, 1746–1831
Specimen of the wood cuts to Northcote's Fables
[1833]
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Bewick's Select fables of Aesop and others
1886
7
Dodsley in miniature, or, The polite fabulist
1810
8
The fables of Aesop, and others
1823
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Gay, John, 1685–1732
Fables
1801
10
Bewick's Select fables of Aesop and others
1879
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Rowe, Henry, -1819
Fables
1810
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Select fables;
1820
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Fables in action
1820
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Gay, John, 1685–1732
Fables
1796
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Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
The works of Thomas Bewick
1822
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The fables of Aesop
1975