Item
Fables of Aesop and other Eminent Mythologists with Morals and Reflexions
- Title
- en_US Fables of Aesop and other Eminent Mythologists with Morals and Reflexions
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US First edition
- en_US By Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt.
- Creator
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:50:55Z
- en_US 2000-11
- en_US 1692
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:50:55Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1692
- Abstract
- en_US Bodemann #86.1. Included are these elements: Frontispiece, Title-Page, Preface, Aesop Engraving, Life of Aesop in eighteen chapters (with pages in Arabic numerals 1-28), AI, Errata, and (starting on a new Arabic 1) five hundred numbered fables without illustration finishing on 480. Bodemann offers a division of the fables: Aesop (1-201), Barlandus, etc. [from Aesopus Dorpii] (202-214), Anianus, etc. (215-252), Abstemius, etc. (253-351), Poggius (352-373), Miscellany fables [= Fables in the Common School-Book] (374-383), Supplement [of more recent authors] (384-500). The frontispiece portrait of L'Estrange is by G. Kneller. Facing the Life of Aesop is a full-page engraving of Aesop among the animals and birds. Bodemann seems to speak of 132 text-illustrations, but there are none here. Do I understand correctly that they were appended as a group after the fables? I do not think I have yet seen an illustrated edition of L'Estrange. There is some water damage perceptible on many pages, especially early in the book. The bottom of the outer spine is worn away. Internally the book seems sound. Signed Charles Wright 1692 on cover page. Ex Libris Scott Chad. This is the year during which I have seen to digitizing L'Estrange's 500 fable texts. I am delighted to have found this book at just the right time!
- Identifier
- en_US 3829 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US R. Sare T. Sawbridge, B. Took, M. Gillyflower, A. & J. Churhcil, and J. Hindmarsh,
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PA3855.E5 L46 1692 See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books