Early Works: 'Aesop's Fables', 'Letters Written to and for Particular Friends' and Other WorksThis is the first edition to assemble all of the earliest known works by Samuel Richardson (1689 1761), one of the most influential authors in the English tradition. Richardson's exercises in conduct writing, religious controversialism, anti theatrical polemic, occasional verse, literary criticism and his popular and surprisingly revealing edition of Aesop's Fables resonate throughout his later work while claiming ample legitimacy of their own.