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Title
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Fables Original and Selected
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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G. Moir Bussey
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Creator
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Bussey, George Moir
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Contributor
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Grandville, J.J.
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Bussey, G. Moir (Essayist)
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Date
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2016-01-25T15:52:37Z
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1992-10
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1842?
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T15:52:37Z
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Date Issued
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1842?
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Abstract
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This somewhat-the-worse-for-wear book represents a real find on Jerry's part. It uses exactly the same plates as my fancy hand-colored 1842 edition. So it has the same 497 fables from some thirty-two fabulists, named with their respective fables in the AI on xxix. See my comments there on the fables and the art. Here are the differences I can see between the two books. This one has a green cover with a gold-engraved spine, poorly repaired, and no date. The title page here drops by the most esteemed European and Oriental authors; specifies the engravers; adds two other publishers, one in Glasgow; and changes Willoughby's address. There are smaller pages, lacking the printed border of the 1842 edition. Dropped are the second publisher's notice on the back of the title page and the simple Fables page before Book I. Book I's insignia page here comes after, not before, the alphabetical index. Finally this edition adds eight pages of Willoughby's book advertisements at the end; this edition is featured with reviewers' quotations on 7. It is hard to believe the transformation that the coloring brings to Grandville's wonderful art. Thank you, Jerry!
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Identifier
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1277 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Willoughby & Co.
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London
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Subject
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PN982.B8 1842b
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Aesop and others
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole