[Pittis (William)], "Tom Teltroth". Jest and Earnest: being a Bundle of Fables, Tales and Whims, in Verse, 1703; Canterbury Tales, rendred into Familiar Verse, half-title, cropped with slight loss, one leaf torn and repaired, a few others reinforced at edges, for the Author, 1701; Chaucer's Whims: being some Select Fables and Tales in Verse, for D.Edwards, 1701, first editions, all sewn into modern card with marbled dust-jackets, preserved together in modern cloth drop-back box § Aesop. Fabularum Aesopicarum delectus, text in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Arabic, engraved frontispiece, title vignette and head-piece to dedication, title frayed and reinforced at head, modern half blue morocco over boards decorated in pen & ink, [Wing A729], Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1698 § Arwaker (Edmund) Truth in Fiction: Or, Morality in Masquerade..., first edition, advertisement leaf at end, modern morocco-backed painted boards, J.Churchill, 1708 § Morning's Discourse (A) of a Bottomless Tubb, introducing the Historical Fable of the Oak and her Three Provinces, first edition, Macclesfield library copy with embossed stamp to title and South Library bookplate, some spotting and marginal browning, slight worming to lower margin of first few leaves repaired, modern morocco-backed boards drawn in pen & ink, [Teerink 1005], John Morphew, 1712 § Amusing and Instructive Fables in French and English...for Schools, 2 parts in 1, second edition, part I with engraved illustrations including cancel pasted in at p.22 (tears repaired), part II with woodcut illustrations, lightly browned, modern half calf, spine gilt, S.Harding, 1738 § [Moore (Edward)] Fables for the Female Sex, first edition, engraved frontispiece, title in red & black with engraved vignette, engraved plates after Hayman, with final blank, modern morocco-backed marbled boards, R.Franklin, 1744, all preserved in modern cloth drop-back boxes; and 13 others, fables, mostly 18th century, 8vo et infra (21)

⁂ The first three are all rare satirical pamphlets. The sixth is an attack on Swift's Tale of a Tub.