OF ESOP AND OTHERS.

In Three Parts.

I. FABLES EXTRACTED FROM DODSLEY'S.

II. FABLES WITH REFLECTIONS IN PROSE AND VERSE.
III. FABLES IN VERSE.

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED

THE LIFE OF ESOP, AND AN ESSAY UPON FABLE
BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

Faithfully Reprinted from the Rare Newcastle Edition published
by T. SAINT in 1784.

With the Original Wood Engravings by Thomas Bewick,

AND AN

Illustrated Preface by Edwin Pearson.

LONDON:
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

270. f. 649

BOD

ANA

"Is not the earth

With various living creatures, and the air
Replenished, and all those at thy command

To come and play before thee?

Their language and their ways?

Knowest thou not

They also know,

And reason not contemptibly: with these
Find pastime."

-Paradise Lost, b. viii. 1. 370.

The above appeared on the titles of both the 1776 and 1784 editions of "SELECT FABLES," T. Saint, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson and Co., Edinburgh and London.

THE

HE edition of Bewick's "Select Fables," published in 1871, having for some time been out of print, the proprietor of the original wood engravings of the Fable Cuts has yielded to many urgent requests for the republication of the work.

The present edition is printed from the original wood blocks, and is issued in two forms-a Library Edition, in demy octavo, uniform in size with Bewick's Standard Works; also in crown octavo, especially adapted to the popular demand both in price and binding.

The Illustrated Preface, which was a feature in the 1871 edition, has been revised by its Author.