Select fables of Aesop and other fabulists

Title

en_US Select fables of Aesop and other fabulists

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Robert Dodsley

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Gilbert, John

Date

2016-01-25T19:28:31Z

en_US 2002-10

en_US 1780?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:28:31Z

Date Issued

en_US 1780

Abstract

en_US Unfortunately this book is missing, as the seller writes, all prior to a5 prelims, including the title-page. It is clearly an edition of Dodsley. The fable text portions seem to be identical with Dodsley's 1761 first edition. Is the Life of Aesop somehow different from the version there? There is Dodsley's usual Essay on Fable and then the three books of fables, Ancient, Modern, and Newly Invented. There are one hundred-fifty-nine woodcuts. The first of them is signed J. Gilbert del. et sculp: 1777. Bodemann notes this signature in #190.3, dated to 1805 and published in London by G. & J. Robinson. That seems to be her only mention of J. Gilbert. One may be able to recognize these illustrations by the decorations around the upper half of the rectangular images, which measure just less than 2 x 2½. The spine features Dodsley and Aesop; the cover is old calf rubbed.

Identifier

en_US 5009 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80606

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US s.n.]

en_US London

Subject

en_US PN982.D6 1780 See all items with this value

en_US Dodsley See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole