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From the de Grummond Children's Books collection. "Being a poetical translation of several curious fables out of Aesop and other approv'd mythologists equally as diverting and beneficial to the English reader as his comic shape and instructive morals were to the ancients." Printed and sold by J. Clarke, at the Golden-Ball, in Duck-Lane, London; H. Cooke, in Fleet-Street, London; and T. Warner, at the Black-Boy, in Pater-Noster-Row, London, in 1731. First edition. Signatures: B-N4. Title-page vignette. Engraved frontispiece. Bound in leather covered boards with gilt decoration. Page v and vii and reversed.