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Additional authors

1. Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?
2. Bellamy, D. (Daniel), 1687-
3. Bellamy, D. (Daniel), 1717-1788
4. Benserade, Isaac de, 1613-1691
5. Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703
6. Fraden, William, active 1749-1768

Description

1. [4], 209-251p., 39 plates : ill.; 27cm.

Uniform title

1. Labyrinte de Versailles. French & English.
2. Aesop's fables. English & French.

Alternative title

1. The labyrinth of Versailles.

Subject

1. Maze gardens
2. Fables, French
3. Parc de Versailles (Versailles, France)

Call number

1. ZBMA (Aesop at court)

Note

1. Engraved t-p. -- The plates are chiefly of the fountains in the Labyrinth, which represent some of Æsop's fables, with the French metrical versions by I. de Benserade; English translations of the verse and of C. Perrault's prose descriptions by Daniel Bellamy; ed. by Bellamy the younger.
2. The first edition, published in Paris, 1677, was in French only with engravings by Sébastien Leclerc; this edition has English translation of the French original prose descriptions by C. Perrault, and the original French verses by J. de Benserade with English translation.

Title

1. Æsop at court; or, The labyrinth of Versailles : delineated in French and English. The plates engraved by G. Bickham. From the Paris edition.

Imprint

1. London: : Printed for ye editor., MDCCLXVIII..

Added author

1. Bickham, George, 1684?-1758?. Illustrator
2. Bellamy, D. (Daniel), 1687-
3. Bellamy, D. (Daniel), 1717-1788.
4. Benserade, Isaac de, 1613-1691.
5. Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703.
6. Fraden, William, active 1749-1768. Printer

Added title

1. Aesop's fables. English & French.
2. The labyrinth of Versailles.

Research call number

1. ZBMA (Aesop at court)