BEWICK’S SELECT FABLES.

“Is not the earth

With various living creatures, and the air

Replenished, and all those at thy command

To come and play before thee? Knowest thou not

Their language and their ways? They also know,

And reason not contemptibly: with these

Find pastime.”

—Paradise Lost, b. viii. l. 370.

The above appeared on the titles of both the 1776 and 1784 editions of“Select Fables,” T. Saint, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Bewick’s Select Fables
OF ÆSOP 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 ÆSOP, 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:
BICKERS & SON, 1 LEICESTER SQUARE, W.C.

PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY
EDINBURGH AND LONDON

Thomas Bewick

Engraver on Wood.

Jaˢ. Ramsay Pinxᵗ. Henry Hoppner Meyer Sculpᵗ.

PREFACE TO 1871 EDITION.

In the various periods of the world’s history menhave appeared who were gifted with greaterpowers of mind and intelligence than the

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