Item
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
- 2016-01-25T16:49:34Z
- en_US 1997-09
- en_US 1773
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:49:34Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1773
- Abstract
- en_US Compare this book with my 1761 first edition, done by Stockdale in Birmingham. See my comments there. This copy lacks the frontispiece and has experienced some repairs. It is rebound in vellum covered boards, slightly bowed, with labels attached, including a brown illustration of FG on the cover. There is some cartooning, e.g., on the title-page of the Ancient Fables section. 131-34 are missing. The illustrations, which have often seen extensive wear, seem to imitate those of the first edition--rather than to be later impressions of them. Compare the illustrations for BF (Ancient Fables 8), for example. The illustrations meant to face Page 198 occur rather in the middle of the index. A young hand painted with blue all the illustrations facing 108. This little book breathes a sense of history.
- Identifier
- en_US 3553 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Printed for J. Dodsley
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PN982.D6 1773 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