Author: AESOP
Title: Aesop's Fables. With upwards of One Hundred and Fifty Engravings on Wood. NEAR FINE COPY IN PERIOD BINDING
Description: Booker & Dolmen [and others],, 1838. 16mo., with engraved title-vignette and very numerous charming wood-engravings in the text, neat contemporary inscription on blank preliminary; attractively bound in nineteenth century full burgundy calf, sides framed in blind, back with flat bands tooled in gilt, second compartment with black leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, tiny pull at headband else a remarkably bright, fresh, crisp copy. Each fable is illustrated by an engraved headpiece, many with a smaller tailpiece. VERY SCARCE.

Keywords: literature, aesop, fables, fabulists


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