Italics text is enclosed in _underscores_; crossed-out text on pages
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first lines of the first page is preceded by carets, such as D^r.
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Fable, were added as a Search aid by Transcriber, as the Table of
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_To Thomas Bewick & Son D^r.,
To an Imp^l. Copy of Esop’s Fables 1^£ 11^s 6^d_
_Received the above with thanks_
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THE
FABLES OF ÆSOP,
AND OTHERS,
WITH DESIGNS ON WOOD,
BY
THOMAS BEWICK.
“_The wisest of the Ancients delivered their Conceptions of the Deity,
and their Lessons of Morality, in Fables and Parables._”
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