AESOP. Aesop's Fables with his Life: in English, French and Latin. London: William Godbid for Francis Barlow 1666.
AESOP. Aesop's Fables with his Life: in English, French and Latin. London: William Godbid for Francis Barlow 1666. 2 o (307 x 199 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved additional title (dated 1665) and 110 etched vignettes with verses etched on the plates, all by and after Francis Barlow (d. 1704). (Minor dampstaining to lower margin, a few marginal short tears including R1 and Ggg1 with old repair crossing text.) Contemporary reverse calf (rebacked). Provenance : Thomas Stone (early name on last leave leaf Ppp2v); Earl of Derby (armorial bookplate); acquired from Marlborough Rare Books, 1960. FIRST EDITION with Barlow's famous illustrations, which was largely destroyed in the London fire of September 1666. Hodnett describes Barlow's anatomically-skilled drawings as "the special glory of the Aesop illustrations" and affirms "no artist has responded with more sensitivity and less sentimentaility to the gentle grace of deer ... The least of creatures, the frog, the hare, the snake, and the swallow, and the least favoured of them, the ass, the boar and the wolf--he draws them all with an intimacy, charm, and invioable integrity never surpassed in an English book, never by Thomas Bewick for instance." (Hodnett). In his preface "To The Reader" Barlow remarks upon his illustrations that he was "pressed into this great Work, some years since, by the perswasion of a much honoured Friend who conceiving it to suit much with my fancy, as consisting so much of Fowl and Beasts, wherein my Friends are pleas'd to count me most Eminent in what I doe." Darton Children's Books In England pp. 14-15; Hodnett Francis Barlow First Master of English Book Illustration , London, 1978, p. 167 ff; Phillip Hofer, "Francis Barlow's Aesop" Harvard Library Bulletin (1948) 11:289; Wing A-696.
AESOP. Aesop's Fables with his Life: in English, French and Latin. London: William Godbid for Francis Barlow 1666.
AESOP. Aesop's Fables with his Life: in English, French and Latin. London: William Godbid for Francis Barlow 1666. 2 o (307 x 199 mm). Engraved frontispiece, engraved additional title (dated 1665) and 110 etched vignettes with verses etched on the plates, all by and after Francis Barlow (d. 1704). (Minor dampstaining to lower margin, a few marginal short tears including R1 and Ggg1 with old repair crossing text.) Contemporary reverse calf (rebacked). Provenance : Thomas Stone (early name on last leave leaf Ppp2v); Earl of Derby (armorial bookplate); acquired from Marlborough Rare Books, 1960. FIRST EDITION with Barlow's famous illustrations, which was largely destroyed in the London fire of September 1666. Hodnett describes Barlow's anatomically-skilled drawings as "the special glory of the Aesop illustrations" and affirms "no artist has responded with more sensitivity and less sentimentaility to the gentle grace of deer ... The least of creatures, the frog, the hare, the snake, and the swallow, and the least favoured of them, the ass, the boar and the wolf--he draws them all with an intimacy, charm, and invioable integrity never surpassed in an English book, never by Thomas Bewick for instance." (Hodnett). In his preface "To The Reader" Barlow remarks upon his illustrations that he was "pressed into this great Work, some years since, by the perswasion of a much honoured Friend who conceiving it to suit much with my fancy, as consisting so much of Fowl and Beasts, wherein my Friends are pleas'd to count me most Eminent in what I doe." Darton Children's Books In England pp. 14-15; Hodnett Francis Barlow First Master of English Book Illustration , London, 1978, p. 167 ff; Phillip Hofer, "Francis Barlow's Aesop" Harvard Library Bulletin (1948) 11:289; Wing A-696.
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