The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations.
by Aesop. John Ogilby
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Engraved frontispiece portrait of Ogilby by P. Lombart after P. Lely engraved plate of Aesop among his animals, and eighty-one engraved plates illustrating the fables by Cleyn most of which were cut by Hollar. The work first appeared in folio in 1665, with 82 fables each with its own full-page illustration (save one plate representing two fables) printed on a separate leaf, with accompanying letterpress text. Hollar was responsible for 57 of the illustrations & the print depicting Aesop. Period debossed full calf with handsome recasing in a fine morocco. Engraved frontispiece portrait cut and mounted, with small paper repair in the lower right corner of the image. Some browning and occasional foxing; a few short marginal tears or paper flaws. Title in red and black, Portrait of Aesop, Dedication to Charles II. 211, [1, blank] 82 [engraved plates] pages. Large folio (10.5 x 16.125 inches; 410 x 265 mm.).
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- Bookseller
- William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7514
- Title
- The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations.
- Author
- Aesop. John Ogilby
- Illustrator
- Franz Cleyn engr. by Wenceslaus Hollar
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed by Thomas Roycroft, for the Author
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1668
- Size
- Folio
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Belles-lettres;
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- Morocco
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- Plate
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- Calf
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- Folio
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- Fine
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