(Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists. In Three Books. A New Edition)

Title

en_US (Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists. In Three Books. A New Edition)

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US By R. Dodsley

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US The Life of Esop, de Meziriac; Essay on Fable, Dod

Date

2016-01-25T19:48:52Z

en_US 2003-06

en_US 1775?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:48:52Z

Date Issued

en_US 1775

Abstract

en_US This damaged book is very close to one I have listed with under 1773, with J. Dodsley as the publisher. That date is given on the title page there. The plates are similar but never exactly the same. In the Life of Aesop, for example, the position of the warning word for the coming page (e.g., From on xiii) is above the footnotes here but below them there. The illustrations seem the same on a sample page like that facing 94, but spaces filled in there with hatch-marks are empty here. The problem with this much-worn little volume is that all pages are lacking up to the first page of the preface. In the 1773 version, there was only one page before the preface, but it was the title-page! At least one of the pages containing twelve small medallion illustrations is missing, namely the one facing the first fable on 3. There is a good deal of writing on both endpapers, and the spine is disintegrating. The leather on these covers has lasted a while! This was a very lucky find during just a few hours in Vancouver.

Identifier

en_US 5672 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81190

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US J. Dodsley?

en_US New ed.

Subject

en_US PN982 .D6 1775 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