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• Reynard's prosecution of the unfortunate bruin, assisted by the wolfe, ox, ass, ram, beaver, &c. : together with the sufferings of the pard, agent for the unhappy bruin : a fable. ([s.n.], 1761) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aesop Dress'd; Or, A Collection of Fables Writ in Familiar Verse, by Bernard Mandeville, contrib. by John S. Shea (Gutenberg ebook)
• Philomythie. Part 2. (Printed at London, : [By Edward Griffin] for Francis Constable., 1616.), by Tho. Scot and Thomas Scott (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The pleasant history of Cawwood the rooke. Or, The assembly of birds with the severall speeches which the birds made to the eagle, in hope to have the government in his absence: and lastly, how the rooke was banished; with the reason why crafty fellowes are called rookes. As also fit morralls and expositions added to every chapter. (London : Printed by T. C[otes] for F. Grove, and are to be sold at his shoppe, at the upper end of Snow-Hill, neere the Sarazens head without Nevv-Gate, 1640) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reynard the Fox. ([London] : Printed for J. Conyers, and are to be sold by J. Blare at the Looking-glass on London-Bridge, [1700?]), by fl. 1680-1702 J. S. (John Shirley) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Le nuove favole di Giovanni Gay (Per il Graziosi, 1767), by John Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables (T. Saint [etc.], 1779), by John Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Einfluss Lafontaine's auf die englische Fabeldichtung des 18. Jahrhunderts. (U.E. Sebald, 1900), by Benedikt Uhlemayr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables, original and selected; by the most esteemed European and Oriental authors, with an introductory dissertation on the history of fable, comprising biographical notices of the most eminent fabulists. (Willoughby and Co., 1842), by George Moir Bussey and J. J. Grandville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The muse in a moral humor: being, a collection of agreeable and instructive tales, fables, pastorals, &c. (Printed for Francis Noble and John Noble, 1757) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gay's fables : in one volume complete. (Printed by Mathew Carey ... , 1808), by John Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gay's Fables and other poems : Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives. (J.F. Dove, 1826), by John Gay, Edward Moore, and Nathaniel Cotton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fables of John Gay illustrated. (G. Routledge & Co., 1857), by John Gay and O. F. Owen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables. (J. and P. Knapton, 1751), by John Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables de Gay, traduites en vers français ... (Ancelle, 1811), by John Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bizarre fables: a series of eccentric historiettes. (W.S. Orr & Co., 1843), by William Arthur Brown Lunn, Alfred Crowquill, and Henning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aesop in rhyme ([St. Louis? Mo.], 1906), by Mary Leone Gilliam Thummel and Aesop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables (Printed for J. Buckland, W. Strahan [et al.], 1775), by John Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables; original and selected; with an introductory dissertation on the history of fable, comprising biographical notices of eminent fabulists; illus. with numerous engravings (D. Appleton & co., 1869), by George Moir Bussey and J. J. Grandville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collection of fables writ in familiar verse (Sold at Lock's-Head adjoyning to Ludgate, 1710), by Bernard Mandeville and Jean de La Fontaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Floral fancies and morals from flowers. (Tilt and Bogue, 1843) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables of John Gay (somewhat altered). (Printed by William Clowes & sons, 1871), by John Benson Rose and John Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parables from nature (George Bell and Sons, 1883), by Mrs. Alfred Gatty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables (Willoughby, 1865), by George Moir Bussey and Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Granville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables (Printed by Pat. Wogan ..., 1799), by John Gay and Patrick Wogan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables (Printed for J. Stockdale, 1793), by John Gay and William Blake (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ladder to learning. ([India] : [publisher not identified], [between 1820 and 1850?], 1820), by Sarah Trimmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circular Saws, by Humbert Wolfe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered), by John Benson Rose and John Gay (Gutenberg ebook)
• One hundred fables (1853), by James Northcote, Dean & Son, William 1796-1866 Harvey, Charles 1795-1876 Whittingham, and William Henry ca. 1795-ca. 1839 Worthington (page images at Florida)
• Fables of John Gay (somewhat altered) (London: William Clowes & Sons, 1871), by John Benson Rose, John Gay, and William Clowes and Sons (page images at Florida)
• Philomythie, or, Philomythologie wherin outlandish birds, beasts, and fishes, are taught to speake true English plainely / by Tho: Scot ... (London : For Francis Constable at the white Lyon in Paules Churchyard, 1622), by Tho. Scot (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Geschichte der Fabeldichtung in England bis zu John Gay (1726) : nebst Neudruck von Bullokars "Fables of Aesop" 1585, "Booke at large" 1580, "Bref grammar for English" 1586, und "Pamphlet for grammar" 1586 : Teil 1: bis zu Spenser (Mayer & Müller, 1906), by Max Plessow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der fabeldichtung in England bis zu John Gay (1726). (Mayer & Müller, 1906), by Max Plessow, kWilliam. Bullokar, and Aesop (page images at HathiTrust)

• The fables of La Fontaine (G. Bell, 1909), by Jean de La Fontaine, J. W. M. Gibbs, and Elizur Wright (page images at HathiTrust)

• The ladder to learning. ([India] : [publisher not identified], [between 1820 and 1850?], 1820), by Sarah Trimmer (page images at HathiTrust)

• C. Iulii Hygini, Augusti liberti, Fabularum liber, : ad omnium poetarum lectionem mire necessarius, & nunc denuò excusus .. (ex Officina Hervagiana, per Eusebium Episcopium, 1570), by C. Julius Hyginus, Herwagen, philosophus Albricus, Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, Jakob Moltzer, ca. 410-485 Proclus, Solensis Aratus, Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, and Palaephatus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ésope en belle humeur; ou, L'élite de ses fables, enrichies de discours moraux & de quatrains; auxquelles on a joint les plus belles fables de Phèdre, de Pilpai & de Mr. de la Motte, avec Les devoirs de l'honnête homme; ou, Maximes politiques & morales. (Chretien Herold, 1750), by Aesop and Charles Mouton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The flea sic parua componere magnis. (London : Printed [by Edward Allde] for Iohn Smethwick and are to be solde at his shop in Saint Dunstanes Churchyard in Fleet-street, vnder the Diall, 1605), by Peter Woodhouse (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The tragicocomedie of serpents. By Lodowik Lloid Esquier. (London : printed by Thomas Purfoot, and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson, at his shop neere the great north dore of Paules, at the signe of the White Horse, 1607), by Lodowick Lloyd (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Delightful fables in prose and verse. None of them to be found in Aesop; but collected from divers ancient and modern authors, with pictures and proper morals to every fable, some very pertinent to the present times. Published as a means which in all ages hath been found useful for pleasure, and likewise for instruction in the prudent conduct of our lives and actions. / By R.B. (London, : Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultry near Cheapside., 1691), by 1632?-1725? R. B. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Æsop's fables with his life in English, French & Latin / the English by Tho. Philipott Esq. ; the French and Latin by Rob. Codrington M.A. ; illustrated with one hundred and twelve sculptures by Francis Barlow. (London : Printed by William Godbid for Francis Barlow, and are to be sold by Ann Seile ... and Edward Powell ..., 1666), by Francis Barlow, Robert Codrington, and Thomas Philipot (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Æsopicks: or, A second collection of fables, paraphras'd in verse, adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations. / By John Ogilby, esq; his Majesty's cosmographer, geographick printer, and master of revels in the kingdom of Ireland. (London : Printed for T. Basset, R. Clavel, and R. Chiswel ..., 1675.), by Aesop and John Ogilby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The dialoges of creatures moralysed. Applyably and edificatyfly, to euery mery and iocounde mater, of late tra[n]slated out of latyn into our Englysshe tonge right profitable to the gouernaunce of man. And they be to sell, vpo[n] Powlys churche yarde. ([Antwerp : Printed by Jan van Doesborch? and sold in Paul's churchyard, 1530?]), by Nicolaus and Mayno (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The fabulous tales of Esope the Phrygian, compiled moste eloquently in Scottishe metre by Master Robert Henrison, & now lately Englished. ; Euery tale moralized most aptly to this present time, worthy to be read.. ([Im]printed at London : by Richard Smith., Anno. 1577.), by Aesop, Robert Henryson, and Richard Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Dialogus creaturarum optimé moralizatus. Dialogues 1-7. English. ([[London] : Imprynted by me Robert wyer, dwellynge in seynt Martyns parysshe. Ad imprimendum solum, [1550?]]), by Pergaminus Nicolaus and de' Mayneri Mayno (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• امثال لقمان الحكيم وبعض اقوال العرب (apud S. et J. Luchtmans, 1767), by Thomas Erpenius, Jacobus Golius, Albert Schultens, and the Sage Luqmān (page images at HathiTrust)

• F.P. Fulgentii Christiani philosophi Mythologiarum libri tres, : in quibus enarrat quid omnes insigniores ueterum fabul[amqu?]e significent, quo docendi genere, miscentes utile dulci, sapientissimè [sophōtagoi?] poëtae & formauere mores & rerum tradididerunt caussas. His non temere, opinor, adiunximus Graecum autorem Palaephatum de fabulis supra fidem confictis. (Excudebat Henricus Petrus,, 1536), by Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, Heinrich Petrus, and Palaephatus (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tragicocomedie of serpents. By Lodowik Lloid Esquier. (London : printed by Thomas Purfoot, and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson, at his shop neere the great north dore of Paules, at the signe of the White Horse, 1607), by Lodowick Lloyd (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Sinryke fabulen : verklaart en toegepast tot alderley zeede-lessen, dienstig om waargenoomen te werden in het menschelijke en burgerlijke leeven. (By Hieronymus Sweerts ..., 1685), by Pieter de la Court, Hieronymus Sweerts, and Jacob Gole (page images at HathiTrust)

• A schole of wise conceytes vvherin as euery conceyte hath wit, so the most haue much mirth, set forth in common places by order of the alphabet. Translated out of diuers Greke and Latine wryters, by Thomas Blage student of the Queenes Colledge in Cambridge. (Printed at London : By Henrie Binneman, dwelling in Knight rider streate, at the signe of the Marmayd, [Anno Domini. 1569]), by Thomas Blague (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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