The tales and fables of the late Archbishop and Duke of Cambray, author of Telemachus : in French and English : written originally for the instruction of a young prince and now publish'd for the use of schools : to which is prefix'd an account of the author's life, extracted from the memoirs of the Chevalier Ramsay, author of The travels of Cyrus : with a particular and curious relation of the method observed in training up the young prince, even from his infancy, to virtue and learning / by Nathaniel Gifford of the Inner-Temple, Gent. ; illustrated with twenty-nine copper-plates engraven by George Bickham, Junior.
Illustrations: Engravings at the head of each fable, signed by Bickham, with woodcut decorative head- and tail-pieces and initial capitals.
Signatures: [A]² a-c⁴ B-L⁸ M².
Includes: A short historical account of the life of Franc. de Sal. de la Motte Fenelon, Archbishop and Duke of Cambray by Nathaniel Gifford.
Dedication by Gifford to "my much respected kinswoman," Mrs. Martha Bellamy, governess of the Young Ladies Boarding School on page [3] and advertisement for her school, including charges, on unnumbered page [xxii] before the fables.
Princeton copy 1: Inscribed at head of title page and also on facing free endpaper: "Lucy Southwell" (apparently in different hands, or one later than the other), and also on front pastedown: "Lucy Southwell," with pen trials below.
Princeton copy 1: Inscribed after title on title page: "Juliana Pratt, 1843."
Binding note
Contempoprary full calf, with gilt-stamped title on spine label: "Cambray Fables."
Language note
French and English text of the fables set in two columns.
References
English Short Title Catalogue, T63311
LCCN
2016660580
OCLC
317840166
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