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The most delightful history of Reynard the Fox: : in heroic verse. Much illustrated and adorned with alegorical phrases and refined English, containing much wisdom and policies of state, under the fabling discourse between birds and beasts, with a moral explanation of each hard and doubtful place or part, being not only pleasant but profitable, as well to the learned of the age, as others. The like never published to the world before

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Publication date: 1681.
Call number: 147849
Dimensions: 4to
Associated people: J. S. (active 1680-1702.)
Associated organization: Bridgewater House Library,
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