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Gn.1.01 - Gn.1.02

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Main entry--uniform title

Aesop's fables. English.

Title

The fables of Æsop, With a Life of the Author: and Embellished with one Hundred & twelve Plates.

Varying form of title

Ais-opou mythoi

Varying form of title

Portion of title: Fables of Aesop

Publication, distribution, etc.

London : Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly. 4th June, 1793.

Physical description

2 v. ([2], lxv, [3], 189, [1]; [2], xi, [2], 248 p.) : ill. ; 27cm. (8vo)

Note

Misprint at the end of vol. 1: p. 189 appears as 891.

Note

The title pages are engraved.

Note

Elephant octavo.

Note

Translated by S. Croxall (ESTC).

Note

Publisher's advertisement for John Gay's Fables on E2.

Note

Signatures: a-d⁸, e², B-N⁸; a⁴, b²; B-Q⁸, R⁴.

Citation/references note

ESTC, T84992

Additional physical form available

Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 7517, no. 01).

Additional physical form available

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Provenance

Ms. inscription in both vols.: "Isaac Preston 1862 from E.H.L.P.".

Provenance

Ex libris label of Clement James Mellish Adie (1876-1954), chief Warden at Eton College, on front pastedown.

Binding

?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.

Subject

Subject

Aesop's fables.

Subject

Fables, Greek Early works to 1800.

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Added entry--place

England London.

Language code

eng grc

Identifier

B24831
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