The Fables of Æsop, and Others / With Designs on Wood

by Aesop

“The wisest of the Ancients delivered their Conceptions of the Deity, and
their Lessons of Morality, in Fables and Parables.”

NEWCASTLE:

PRINTED BY E. WALKER, FOR T. BEWICK AND SON.
SOLD BY THEM, LONGMAN AND CO. LONDON,
AND ALL BOOKSELLERS.
1818.

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Wise Men think
Good Men Grieve
Knaves invent
and Fools believe.

THE PREFACE DEDICATORY.

To the Youth of the British Isles.

In collecting together, for your use and benefit, some of the prudential maxims, and moral apothegms, of the ancient sages, the Publishers of this volume have been stimulated by an ardent desire to render this excellent mode of instruction as agreeable as possible; and, at the same time, to impress the precepts contained in the Fables more forcibly on your minds, they have endeavoured to make the embellishments worthy of your notice and examination.