Fables of Aesop and Others. Newly done into English. With an Application to each Fable

Title

en_US Fables of Aesop and Others. Newly done into English. With an Application to each Fable

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: lat

en_US Third edition

en_US Croxall

Creator

en_US Croxall, Samuel (translator) See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Kirkall, Elisha

Date

2016-01-25T16:49:31Z

en_US 2000-03

en_US 1731

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:49:31Z

Date Issued

en_US 1731

Abstract

en_US What a delight to have found so early an edition of Croxall in good to very good condition! This copy fits Bodemann's description of the first edition from 1722 (#107.1) except for the number of pages (345 here, 344 there). Here, apparently as there, Croxall is first mentioned at the end of the dedication to Halifax. To quote Alibris' description: Simply bound in modern full leather, contrasting label, gilt. Spine with raised bands. The title-page has been laid down. A good, clean copy. The Kirkall illustrations are done here with various levels of firmness. Some are unfortunately somewhat faint, e.g. on 32 and 247, others more distinct, e.g. on 155 and 236. Somewhere I had mis-learned that the first edition was done anonymously and that only a subsequent edition had added Kirkall's illustrations to Croxall's texts. While Kirkall is mentioned neither here nor in the first edition, these are his illustrations, as Bodemann makes clear. Unfortunately, Gerard van der Gucht's frontispiece--if it was printed with this edition--is missing here. Croxall gives at the end an index especially to qualities and persons. At the beginning, what is labeled The Contents of the Fables is an AI. Use that to find a fable by one of its characters.

Identifier

en_US 3545 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78911

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts

en_US London

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 C7 1731 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