The instructive and entertaining fables of Pilpay, [electronic resource] : an ancient Indian philosopher, containing a number of excellent rules for the conduct of persons of all ages, and all Stations: Under several Heads. Corrected, improved, and enlarged; and adorned with near seventy cuts neatly Engraved.

The instructive and entertaining fables of Pilpay, [electronic resource] : an ancient Indian philosopher, containing a number of excellent rules for the conduct of persons of all ages, and all Stations: Under several Heads. Corrected, improved, and enlarged; and adorned with near seventy cuts neatly Engraved.

Dublin : printed by George Faulkner in Essex-Street, MDCCLII. [1752]

Ireland -- Dublin.

English

[2],viii,[6],214,[2]p.,plates ; 12⁰.

With a final advertisement leaf.
First published in 1699 as 'The fables of Pilpay'.
A translation by Joseph Harris of 'Les fables de Pilpay', 1698, which purported to be a translation of the Kalı̄lah wa-Dimnah, but was in fact a translation by Gilbert Gaulmin and Dāwūd Sa'ı̄d of the first four chapters of the Persian 'Anvār i Suhaylı̄'.
Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.

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English Short Title Catalog, N8321.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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