Title: The Fables of Aesop, with a Life of the Author Author: Aesop Place: London Publisher: John Stockdale Date: 1793 Description: 2 volumes. lxv, 189; xi, 248 pp. Two engraved titles plus 110 plates. (Large 8vo) 10¼x6, later full calf gilt, morocco lettering and numbering pieces, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt, by Tout. First Stockdale Edition. Tall copy of this handsome edition printed by T. Bensley. The plates are by thirty different engravers (and four unsigned plates): Landseer, J. Chapman Bell, Eastgate, Bromley, Skelton, Audinet, Martin, Barrett, and others. Bookplates of Edward Robeson Taylor and Edward DeWitt Taylor. Lot Amendments Condition: Mild rubbing to joints and spine ends; intermittent pale foxing, a little heavier at ends of vol. 1 (including title-page); near fine. Item number: 164578
Title: The Fables of Aesop, with a Life of the Author Author: Aesop Place: London Publisher: John Stockdale Date: 1793 Description: 2 volumes. lxv, 189; xi, 248 pp. Two engraved titles plus 110 plates. (Large 8vo) 10¼x6, later full calf gilt, morocco lettering and numbering pieces, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt, by Tout. First Stockdale Edition. Tall copy of this handsome edition printed by T. Bensley. The plates are by thirty different engravers (and four unsigned plates): Landseer, J. Chapman Bell, Eastgate, Bromley, Skelton, Audinet, Martin, Barrett, and others. Bookplates of Edward Robeson Taylor and Edward DeWitt Taylor. Lot Amendments Condition: Mild rubbing to joints and spine ends; intermittent pale foxing, a little heavier at ends of vol. 1 (including title-page); near fine. Item number: 164578
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