Bewick's Select Fables of Aesop and Others. In Three Parts. I. Fables Extracted from Dodsley's. II. Fables with Reflections in Prose and Verse. III. Fables in Verse. To Which are Prefixed the Life of Aesop, and an Essay upon Fable by Oliver Goldsmith
by Bewick, Thomas, Wood Engravings by. Preface by Edwin Pearson
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About This Item
London: Longmans Green, 1878. Cloth. Good. Gilt-stamped dark green cloth with decorations in red and black, all edges gilt, 8vo, 312 pp., frontis. portrait, chapter head illustrations throughout. Covers rubbed, particularly at edges and extremities, with some loss and fraying at head and heel of spine and corners; book plate on front pastedown (over residue of removed book plate), front hinge starting.
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- Title
- Bewick's Select Fables of Aesop and Others. In Three Parts. I. Fables Extracted from Dodsley's. II. Fables with Reflections in Prose and Verse. III. Fables in Verse. To Which are Prefixed the Life of Aesop, and an Essay upon Fable by Oliver Goldsmith
- Author
- Bewick, Thomas, Wood Engravings by. Preface by Edwin Pearson
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans Green
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1878
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