Select fables of Esop and other fabulists : in three books

Select fables of Esop and other fabulists : in three books. ''An essay on fable'' [signed R. Dodsley]--p. [lv]-lxxvii. ''The life of Esop, collected from ancient writers. By Mons. de Meziriac''--p. [2]-liii. Collected, and partly translated, partly written, by Robert Dodsley. Illustrated with a frontispiece, t.p. vignette, and six head- and tail-pieces engraved on copper by Charles Grignion after Samuel Wale. Index--[28] p. at end of text. The three ''books'' contain fables ''from the ancients'', ''from the moderns'', and ''newly invented'' by Dodsley and various authors with whom he was connected.