THE FABLES OF AESOP. Selected, Told Anew and Their History Traced By Joseph Jacobs. Done Into Pictures By Richard Heighway
by Jacobs, Joseph
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1894. Decorative Cloth. Very Good +. Beautiful edition illustrated with many B&W Full-Page and In-text Drawings. Frontis illus. a Stork and a Fox. Decorated title page. Beautiful dark Green cloth cover with bright Gilt Crow on a branch looking down at a Fox. Bright Gilt lettering, on front and spine, and Gilt Vignette of Stork & Fox on spine. All page edges gilt. Dark green endpapers. XXV/25 preliminary pages, main text 220 pages + Index and Adverts. 7 1/2" tall, 480g. From the library of the late Professor Charles Thomas, Cornish Historian & Author, his illustrated Bookplate is on endpaper. Small tear to tissue guard. No inscriptions. Cover protected in clear contact plastic which has preserved it in excellent condition.
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- Bookseller
- Cornish Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020339
- Title
- THE FABLES OF AESOP. Selected, Told Anew and Their History Traced By Joseph Jacobs. Done Into Pictures By Richard Heighway
- Author
- Jacobs, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co
- Place of Publication
- London and New York
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS/ILLUSTRATED BOOKS/CLASSICS/FOLKLORE & LEGENDS/FABLE
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