Author: ÆSOPHUS - JOSEPH JACOBS (EDITOR/PREFACE),
Title: Aesop fables. [Original edition, thus].
Description: New York-Boston, H.M. Caldwell, [circa], 1900. Small 8°. Original publ. cloth. Covertitle in blind stamped bold type. Covers and spine richly embellished by coloured flower motifs, front cover with vertical delicate gilded lining. 228pp. Ti.-p. printed in red, printed within wide green coloured decorative top- and tail borders. 3 monochrome photo-plates, incl. frontidpiece, many elegant small monochrome images in text, decorative head-and- tail pieces, full-page Pedigree of Aesophus, extensive detailed notes and references to fables, list of fables, table of contents. English language select and annotated collection of Aesop's Fables, translated and edited by Joseph Jacobs. Good to very good charming little volume in original richly decorative publ. cloth. (headband of spine a little bit damaged, skilfully restored however). Gaius Julius Phaedrus, ± 15 BC - ± 50 AD, said to be a Thracian slave born in Macedonia, living in imperial Rome under the Emperors Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Claudius. He is recognized as the first author to latinize books of fables, retelling in iambic metre Greek Prose Aesopic tales. Good to very good untrimmed copy, contents crisp and clean. Rare.

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