"Now the Purpose for which [Lestrange] principally intended his Book, as in his Preface he spends a great many Words to inform us, was for the Use and Instruction of Children; who being, as it were, a mere rasa tabula, or blank Paper, are ready indifferently for any Opinion, good or bad, taking all upon Credit; and that it is in the Power of the first Comer to write Saint or Devil upon them, which he pleases."
Fables of &AElig;sop and others. Newly done into English. With an application to each fable. Illustrated with cutts.
Aesop. <u>Fables of &AElig;sop and others. Newly done into English. With an application to each fable. Illustrated with cutts. </u>The fifth edition. London, 1747. Based on information from English Short Title Catalogue. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO