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• A ryght pleasaunt and merye historie, of the mylner of Abyngton, with his wife, and his fayre daughter: and of two poore scholers of Cambridge Wherevnto is adioyned another merye Iest, of a sargeaunt that woulde haue learned to be a fryar. (Imprinted at London : [I. Charlewood for] By Rycharde Ihones, [c. 1576]), by Andrew Boorde and Thomas More (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A petite pallace of Pettie his pleasure contaynyng many pretie hystories by him set foorth in comely colours, and most delightfully discoursed. ([Printed at London : By R. W[atkins], [1576]]), by George Pettie and fl. 1576 R. B. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Iconologie ([Éd. Faton], 1999), by Cesare Ripa, Jacques De Bie, and Jean Baudoin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels of Hepzibah (Printed for the author, and sold by J. Johnson ..., 1762), by John Mitchell and Joseph Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symbolica Aegyptiorum sapientia : olim ab eo scripta, nunc post varias editiones denuò edita ; Polyhistor symbolicus : electorum symbolorum, et parabolarum historicarum stromata, XII. libris complectens (Sumptibus Simeonis Piget, 1647), by Nicolas Caussin and Horapollo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fables of flowers, for the female sex : with Zephyrus and Flora, a vision (Printed for E. Newbery, the corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard :, 1781), by John Huddlestone Wynne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emblemata, partim moralia partim etiam civilia (Apud Joannem Janssonium, 1648), by Florens Schoonhoven and Crispijn van de Passe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Icones symbolicae (Apud Io. Bapt. Bidellinm [i.e. Bidellium], 1628), by Cristoforo Giarda, Cesare Bassano, and Duke University. Library. Gilbert Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iconologie tirée de divers auteurs : ouvrage utile aux gens de lettres, aux poëtes, aux artistes, & généralement à tous les amateurs des beaux arts (Chez l'auteur :, 1759), by Jean-Baptiste Boudard, Benigno Bossi, and Giuseppe Pezzana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sontuoso apparato fatto dalla magnifica citta di Brescia (Apresso Vincenzo Sabbio ..., 1591), by Leone Pallavicini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Docvmenti d'amore (Nella stamperia di Vitale Mascardi, 1640), by Francesco da Barberino, Federico Zuccaro, Johann Friedrich Greuter, Cornelis Bloemaert, and Federico Ubaldini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Icones symbolicae (Ex typographia hered. Melchioris Malatestae ..., 1626), by Cristoforo Giarda and Cesare Bassano (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iconologie par figures (Chez Le Pan ..., 1791), by Hubert François Gravelot, Charles-Etienne Gaucher, and Charles Nicolas Cochin (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo : cioè pugna d'amore in sogno, dou'egli mostra, che tutte le cose humane non sono altro che sogno, & doue narra molt'altre cose degne di cognitione. (In Casa de' Figliovoli di Aldo, 1545), by Francesco Colonna (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iconologie (A Paris : Chez Iacques Villery, ruë Clopin, prés le petit Nauarre, à l'Escu de France, M.DC.XXXVII. [1637], 1637), by Cesare Ripa, William Charles de Meuron Fitzwilliam, Jacques De Bie, Jean Baudoin, and Jacques Villery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emblemata ethico politica (Sumpt. Lud. Bourgeat bibliopolae academici, 1669), by Jakob Bornitz, Ludwig Bourgeat, and Nicolaus Meerfeldt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leerzame zinnebeelden : bestaande in christelyke bedenkingen door vergelykinge eeniger schepfelen ... (Gedrukt voor der Autheur ... by Johannes Ratelband ..., 1704), by Hendrik Graauwhart and Johannes Ratelband (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jacob's well, an English treatise on the cleansing of man's conscience. (Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1900), by Arthur Brandeis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Insignia sacrae caesareae maiestatis, principum electorum, ac aliquot illustrissimarum, illustrium, noblium, & aliarum familiarum, formis artificiosissimis expressa (Apvd Georgivm Corvinvm, impensis Sigismundi Feyerabendij, 1579), by Philipp Lonicer and Jost Amman (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)

• 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)

• 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)

• The country mouse, and the city mouse. Or a merry morrall fable enlarged out of Horace. Serm. lib. 2. Sat. 6. (London : Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Michael Sparke Iunior, and are to be sold at the blue Bible in Greene Arbour, 1637), by Wye Saltonstall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 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)
• The fable of the sun and frogs in elegant Latin verse, applyed to the present state of affairs between the French and Dutch. With three several translations in English, by three several hands. The first nearer the Latin; the other two allowing themselves a greater liberty of phansie. (London : printed for William Gilbert bookseller, at the half Moon in Pauls Church-yard, 1672) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Fākihat al-khulafāʼ wa-mufākahat al-ẓurafāʼ (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Maymanīyah, 1907), by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Ibn ʻArabshāh and -approximately 760 Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ (page images at HathiTrust)

• Merry geste of the frere and the boy. ([Enprynted at London : In Fletestrete at the sygne of the sonne, by Wynkyn de Worde], [between 1510 and 1513]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Fryer and the boy. (London : Printed by E: A[llde] dwelli[ng] neere Christ-Church, 1617) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Fryer and the boy. Part 2. (London : printed by A.M. and R.R. for Edward Brewster a[t] the Crane in St. Paul's Church-yard, and are to be sold by James Gilbertson next door to the Sun and Bible on London-bridge, 1680) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Gesta Romanorum. English. ([London : [Printed by [J.] Kynge, M.D.L.VII. [1557]]]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A paradoxe, prouing by reason and example, that baldnesse is much better than bushie haire, &c. Written by that excellent philosopher Synesius, Bishop of Thebes, or (as some say) Cyren. A prettie pamphlet, to pervse, and replenished with recreation. Englished by Abraham Fleming. Herevnto is annexed the pleasant tale of Hemetes the Heremite, pronounced before the Queenes Maiestie. Newly recognised both in Latine and Englishe, by the said A.F. ([London] : Printed by H. Denham, 1579), by Synesius of Cyrene, Abraham Fleming, and George Gascoigne (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A. C. mery talys ([London : J. Rastell, 1526?]) (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)

• Bahār-i dānish. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by -approximately 1671 ʻInāyat Allāh, Alexander Isaac Cotheal, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)

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