LEARNING FRENCH BY FABLES
PERRIN, M.
[Jean Baptiste]. Fables amusantes, avec une Table générale & particulière des Mots & de leur Signification en Anglois, selon l’Ordre des Fables, pour en rendre la Traduction plus facile à l’Ecolier … Septième Edition. A Londres chez B. Law & Fils …T. Cadell … P. Elmsly … 1793.
A Londres chez B. Law & Fils …T. Cadell … P. Elmsly … 1793
12mo., pp. xvi, 220, [4, advertisements], with an engraved frontispiece of two young scholars being ushered to school, possibly children of the Prince of Wales, to whom the book is dedicated; contemporary sheep with blind fillets, spine slightly defective at head and foot but withal a very good copy; signature on pastedown and title-page of the politician Thomas Orde Powlett, sometime chief secretary for Ireland, afterwards governor of the Isle of Wight.
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[Jean Baptiste]. Fables amusantes, avec une Table générale & particulière des Mots & de leur Signification en Anglois, selon l’Ordre des Fables, pour en rendre la Traduction plus facile à l’Ecolier … Septième Edition. A Londres chez B. Law & Fils …T. Cadell … P. Elmsly … 1793.
Seventh edition of a popular educational work first published in 1771. Jean Baptiste Perrin (fl. 1767-98) worked as a private French tutor in Dublin. He was a prolific author of works for learning French (the advertisements at the end list 18 of them, several commended by the Monthly Review). The 140 short fables here, ancient and modern, are mainly animal fables but occasionally involve humans such as a fisherman, huntsman, shepherd, or merchant. Instead of a vocabulary they are followed by a ‘General Index’ of common words and a hundred-page ‘Particular Index of the Words, and their Signification in English’ line by line, fable by fable.
Alston XII, 473. ESTC locates five copies: BL, Bodley (2); Columbia, and St. Louis Public Library.
