Aesop's Fables Aesop and Others, newly done into English with an Application to each Fable". First published in 1722, with engravings by Elisha Kirkall for each fable, it was continuously reprinted into the second half of the 19th century. Another popular collection was John Newbery's "Fables in Verse for the Improvement of the Young and the Old", facetiously attributed to Abraham Aesop Esquire, which was to see ten editions after its first publication in 1757. Robert Dodsley's three-volume "Select Fables of Esop and other Fabulists" is distinguished for several reasons. First that it was printed in Birmingham by John Baskerville in 1761;
The Greek Slave chain. Powers himself described the subject of the work thus: The Slave has been taken from one of the Greek Islands by the Turks, in the time of the Greek revolution, the history of which is familiar to all. Her father and mother, and perhaps all her kindred, have been destroyed by her foes, and she alone preserved as a treasure too valuable to be thrown away. She is now among barbarian strangers, under the pressure of a full recollection of the calamitous events which have brought her to her present state; and she stands exposed to the gaze of