(Aesop et al) - Bewick's Select Fables of Aesop and Others

London, Longman's, Green & Co, 1878. Later printing. Hardcover. Duodecimo (5" x 7.25"), green red and gilt-stamped pictorial cloth with gilt spine. All edges gilt. Back cover decorated in blind. 312pp. Profusely illustrated throughout the text "with the original wood engravings by Thomas Bewick". Two former owners' names and an inscription on the verso of the front free-endpaper. Some wear at extremities, particularly the head and tail, but still a lovely copy. "In Three Parts. I. Fables Extracted from Dodsley's; II. Fables with Reflections in Prose and Verse; III. Fables in Verse. To which are prefixed The Life of Aesop, and An Essay Upon Fable by Oliver Goldsmith. Faithfully Reprinted from the Rare Newcastle Edition published by T. Saint in 1784...

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