Shelfmark
Cb.2.1.07
Author
Uniform title
[Aesop's fables]
Title
[The fables of Æsop paraphras'd in verse: adorn'd with sculpture and illustrated with annotations. By John Ogilby.].
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London] : [Printed by Thomas Roycroft, for the Author], [1665].
Physical description
[2], 81 plates ; Fo.
Note
Previously Ca.3.4A.
Note
Title page in red and black.
Note
Portrait of author signed "P. Lilly pinxit P. Lombart sculpsit Londini."; other plates signed by Wenceslaus Hollar, and D.D.D.
Note
The plate after plate 13 is numbered 14.
Note
In verse.
Note
Incomplete: wants title-page, imprint, and text. Work tentatively identified from subject of plates, signing of some by W. Hollar and D. Stoop, and presence of date 1665 on some.
Note
First plate has verse "Examples are best precepts; and a tale / Adorn'd with sculpture better may prevaile, / To make men lesser beasts, than all the store / Of tedious volumes vext the world before.".
Citation/references note
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), A693; ESTC R11060
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. University Microfilms, 1977. 1 microfilm reel. 35mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700; 754:23).
Provenance
Label of Eton College Library.
Provenance
Ms. note in pencil, reading "Storer bequest"; bequeathed to Eton by Anthony Morris Storer in 1799.
Binding
19th century half-leather and marbled paper. Ms. note on pastedown reads "bound by Eton College 1804".
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Storer, Anthony Morris, 1746 - 1799 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B13461