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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Reference Library
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Northcote, James, 1746–1831
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Gay, John, 1685–1732
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Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
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Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
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Rowe, Henry, -1819
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Spence, Joseph, 1699–1768
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
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Accessible by appointment in the Reference Library
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Under Certain Circumstances
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Free to Use
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Unavailable
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Books
19
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
2
Creator Gender
unknown
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Period
19th century
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18th century
3
17th century
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20th century
1
Work Type
wood engraving
13
recreation
3
game
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aquatint
1
board game
1
lithograph
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metamorphic picture
1
prospectuse
1
publishers' advertisement
1
steel engraving
1
Subject Terms
Fables.
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Baldwin, R. -- Publisher.
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Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. -- Printer.
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Bent, W. -- Publisher.
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Cadell, T. -- Publisher.
2
Chiswick Press -- Printer.
2
Gardner, H. L. -- Publisher.
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Johnson, J. -- Publisher.
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Lowndes, W. -- Publisher.
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Murray, John -- Publisher.
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Newbery, E. -- Publisher.
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Rivington, F. and C. -- Publisher.
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Robinson, G. G. and J. -- Publisher.
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Scatcherd, J. -- Publisher.
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Sewell, J. -- Publisher.
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Walker, J. -- Publisher.
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Whittingham, C. -- Printer.
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Ackermann, R. -- Publisher
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Aesop -- Translations into English.
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Aesop's fables -- Illustrations.
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19th century
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Great Britain
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Edinburgh (Scotland)
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Halifax (Nova Scotia)
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Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Tyne and Wear)
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York (England)
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Aesop
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Northcote, James, 1746–1831
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Exhibition History
Picture Talking: James Northcote and the Fables (Yale Center for British Art, October 2, 2014-December 14, 2014)
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Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977)
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Instruction and Delight: Children's Games from the Ellen and Arthur Liman Collection (Yale Center for British Art, January 17, 2019-May 23, 2019)
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Ocean Flowers (Yale Center for British Art, 2004-06-12 - 2004-08-08)
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Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Reese Company
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The fables of Aesop, and others
1818
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La Fontaine in the game of the goose
[ca. 1810]
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Northcote, James, 1746–1831
One hundred fables, original and selected
1828
4
The hare and the tortoise
Novr. 5th. 1849
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Northcote, James, 1746–1831
Fables, original and selected
1833
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Northcote, James, 1746–1831
Specimen of the wood cuts to Northcote's Fables
[1833]
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Bewick's Select fables of Aesop and others
1879
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Rowe, Henry, -1819
Fables
1810
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Dodsley in miniature, or, The polite fabulist
1810
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The fables of Aesop, and others
1823
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Spence, Joseph, 1699–1768
Moralities: or, Essays, letters, fables;
1753
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Bewick's Select fables of Aesop and others
1886
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Fables of Aesop
1837
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Gay, John, 1685–1732
Fables
1801
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Gay, John, 1685–1732
Fables
1796
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The fables of Aesop
4th June 1793
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Ogilby, John, 1600–1676
The fables of Aesop paraphras'd in verse
1668
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Bewick, Thomas, 1753–1828
The works of Thomas Bewick
1822
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Select fables;
1820
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Fables in action
1820
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The fables of Aesop
1975