The Royal fabulist : being a collection of entertaining fables intended as a present for all those good girls and boys who behave according to the following rules ...

Date:

1806.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH R8887 F33 1806 local

Publisher:

Printed by Lincoln & Gleason

Physical Description:

30 pages : including frontispiece, illustrations ; 10 cm

Notes:

"Ornamental with cuts." local

Curator Notes:

1806 Lincoln & Gleason (Hartford) imprint; [most of the fables seem to have originated with Aesop, but one, 'The Boy and Butterfly', seems to be an adaptation of John Bunyan's 'Of the Boy and Butterfly,' from his Book for Boys and Girls (1646), see YH B942 B6 1928]; paper wrappers with title-page on front and patterned design on back (alphabet inside front cover, list of books for sale inside back cover)

Subjects:

Children's stories and Children's stories