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Richardson edited L'Estrange's Aesop's Fables, with Instructive Morals and Reflections, Abstracted from all Party Considerations, Adapted to all Capacities; and Design'd to promote Religion, Morality, and Universal Benevolence, 1739 (Sale gives the date as 1740, p. 147). See Jayne Elizabeth Lewis, The English Fable: Aesop and Literary Culture, 1651-1740 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996), pp. 28-31. See also Thomas Keymer, “Pamela's Fables: Æsopian Writing and Political Implication in Samuel Richardson and Sir Roger L'Estrange,” XVII-XVIII: Bulletin de la société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, 41 (November 1995), 81-101. The quotation in this number is from Fables and Storyes Moraliz'd. Being a Second Part of the Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, etc. By Sir Roger L'Estrange (London, 1699), No. XXIII, pp. 20-21.
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