Six fables translated from German into English and most humbly offer'd to his royal highness Prince George of Cambridge by his royal highness's devoted servant Joseph Pym Johnston, Banteln, 1822 December 25.

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Six fables translated from German into English and most humbly offer'd to his royal highness Prince George of Cambridge by his royal highness's devoted servant Joseph Pym Johnston, Banteln, 1822 December 25.

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For a Christmas present for the three-year-old prince, Joseph Pym Johnston created this holographic volume of fables with the German text on the left-hand page and the English translation on the right. The fables are: The boy and his father, The two field-mice, The cat, The raven, The finely caparison'd ass, and The hawk and the stork. At the conclusion is a comic version of The cat and The raven, only in English.

1 v. (41 p.) : red morocco ; 21 cm.

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George William Frederick Charles, second duke of Cambridge (1819-1904), was the only son of Adolphus Frederick, duke of Cambridge, and Augusta of Hesse-Cassel. He was the grandson of both George III and Frederick III and a cousin of Queen Victoria. From the description of Six fables translated from German into English and most humbly offer'd to his royal highness Prince George of Cambridge by his royal highness's devoted servant Joseph Pym Johnston, Banteln, 1822 December 25. (Pennsy...