Shelfmark
Gn.1.01 - Gn.1.02
Author
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.
Added entry--name
Stockdale, John, 1749? - 1814 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Croxall, Samuel, 1688 or 1689 - 1752 translator.
Added entry--name
Adie, C. J. M. (Clement James Mellish), 1876 - 1954 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng grc
Identifier
B24831