Gn.1.01 - Gn.1.02
Aesop's fables. English.
The fables of Æsop, With a Life of the Author: and Embellished with one Hundred & twelve Plates.
Ais-opou mythoi
Portion of title: Fables of Aesop
London : Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly. 4th June, 1793.
2 v. ([2], lxv, [3], 189, [1]; [2], xi, [2], 248 p.) : ill. ; 27cm. (8vo)
Misprint at the end of vol. 1: p. 189 appears as 891.
The title pages are engraved.
Elephant octavo.
Translated by S. Croxall (ESTC).
Publisher's advertisement for John Gay's Fables on E2.
Signatures: a-d⁸, e², B-N⁸; a⁴, b²; B-Q⁸, R⁴.
ESTC, T84992
Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 7517, no. 01).
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Ms. inscription in both vols.: "Isaac Preston 1862 from E.H.L.P.".
Ex libris label of Clement James Mellish Adie (1876-1954), chief Warden at Eton College, on front pastedown.
?19th-century grained red morocco over pasteboard. Covers with gilt decoration and fillets to form a border. Gilt turn-ins. Spine woth four raised bands; blind tooling and titling ("Æsop's fables"). Double endbands with plain and green thread. Pastedown and endleaves in cloth doubleurs with gilt roll and tools at the corners. One flyleaf at the upper end of the textblock.
Aesop's fables.
Fables, Greek Early works to 1800.
Stockdale, John, 1749? - 1814 bookseller.
Croxall, Samuel, 1688 or 1689 - 1752 translator.
Adie, C. J. M. (Clement James Mellish), 1876 - 1954 former owner.
England London.
eng grc
B24831