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Title: Ethic Amusements...[with] Aesop at Court; or the Labyrinth at Versailles
Author:
Daniel Bellamy, the Elder (British, London born 1687)
Editor:
Daniel Bellamy, the Younger (British, baptised Holborn 1717–1788 Kew Palace)
Designer:
Frontispiece after Hubert François Gravelot (French, Paris 1699–1773 Paris)
Engraver:
Frontispiece engraved by George Bickham, Sr. (British, London 1684–1758 London)
Draftsman:
Joshua Kirby (British, Parham, Suffolk 1716–1774 Kew Green, Surrey)
Engraver:
Charles Grignion, I (British, London baptised 1721–1810 London)
Author:
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (Italian, Rome (?) 470/75–524 Pavia (?))
Translator:
William Causton (British, active mid-18th century)
Translator:
Daniel Bellamy, the Elder (British, London born 1687)
Author:
Aesop (Greek, ca. 620–560 BCE)
Artist:
George Bickham, Sr. (British, London 1684–1758 London)
Engraver:
George Bickham, Sr. (British, London 1684–1758 London)
Draftsman:
Claude Gillot (French, Langres 1673–1722 Paris)
Draftsman:
Samuel Wale (British, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk 1721–1786 London)
Author:
François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon (French, Château de Fénelon, Périgord 1651–1715 Cambrai)
Author:
M. Le Noble
Publisher:
Daniel Bellamy, the Elder (British, London born 1687)
Printer:
Printed London by William Faden, the Elder (British, 1711–1783)
Date: 1768
Medium: Illustrations: engraving
Dimensions: 10 13/16 x 8 15/16 x 1 3/4 in. (27.5 x 22.7 x 4.4 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1969
Object Number: 69.637.3
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