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EARLY FABLES & FAIRY TALES. Imagine holding history in your hands. Now you can. Digitally preserved and previously accessible only through libraries as Early English Books Online, this rare material is now available in single print editions. Thousands of books written between 1475 and 1700 can be delivered to your doorstep in individual volumes of high quality historical reproductions. This series includes many translations, some illustrated, of some of the most well-known mythologies of today. The collection includes Aesop's Fables and English fairy tales, as well as many Greek, Latin and even Oriental parables. Also included is criticism and interpretation on the subject. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ AEsop's fables with his life in English, French & Latin / the English by Tho. Philipott Esq.; the French and Latin by Rob. Codrington M.A.; illustrated with one hundred and twelve sculptures by Francis Barlow. Aesop's fables. Polyglot. Barlow, Francis, 1626?-1702. Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665. Philipot, Thomas, d. 1682. Includes 110 fables in French and Latin prose and English verse, the latter (by several poets) etched below the illustrations. Table of contents: p. [1]-[2] at end. [8], 40, 31, 17, 2-221, [2] p.: London: Printed by William Godbid for Francis Barlow, and are to be sold by Ann Seile... and Edward Powell..., 1666. Wing / A696 English Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery ++++ This book represents an authentic reproduction of the text as printed by the original publisher. While we have attempted to accurately maintain the integrity of the original work, there are sometimes problems with the original work or the micro-film from which the b