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Fables of Aesop and Others. Translated into English. With Instructive Applications and a Print before each Fable
- Title
- en_US Fables of Aesop and Others. Translated into English. With Instructive Applications and a Print before each Fable
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Original language: grc
- en_US 17th edition
- en_US By Samuel Croxall
- Creator
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Kirkall, Elisha
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:49:32Z
- en_US 1998-07
- en_US 1805
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:49:32Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1805
- Abstract
- en_US This is a vintage Croxall edition in good form from about the middle of the long period during which this edition dominated the fable market. The frontispiece is now engraved by Nesbit. The title-page keeps the changes I had noted in the 1778 eleventh edition. Though the fables again consume 329 pages, as they did in the eleventh edition, the typesetting seems to be new. Hobbs (84-5) speaks at length of Kirkall's white-line technique. She also notes that improved printing techniques after 1800, together with John Lee's retouching of the plates, meant that later impressions were better than any since the mid-eighteenth century. The book was published in as many as two hundred editions and remained in Hobbs' view the most significant children's fable collection for 150 years after its publication--perhaps because for the first time in England every fable was illustrated, and because it was cheap. There is a wormhole around the page numbers of 1-28. As Abbey mentions, this is a clean, crisp copy with excellent impressions. If the inking of some is faint, the details still come through wonderfully!
- Identifier
- en_US 3547 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US J. Johnson, R. Baldwin, F.C. and J. Rivington et al
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PA3855.E5 C7 1805 See all items with this value
- en_US Aesop and others See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books