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London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768. With seventeen full page engravings illustrating the fables, and an engraved frontispiece bound before the half-title and title leaves. Contemporary boards with a leather spine; outer joints weak; very good.
FABLES by William Wilkie - 1768
by William Wilkie
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by William Wilkie
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London: Edward & Charles Dilly, 1768. 1st Edition. Leather bound. 140p, complete with 18 copper-engraved plates. Recently rebound in full leather, preserving the original endpapers. Ownership signature dated 1773 by Mary Hanson; bookplate of Sir Thomas Gery Cullom, Baronet. Cullom, of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, married Hanson in 1774. Offsetting from the plates, else interior pages clean and book in overall near fine condition.
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- Publisher Edward & Charles Dilly
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1768
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Fables
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Fables
by William Wilkie
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London; Edinburgh: Edward and Charles Dilly; A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1768. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 4.5". Not Stated. An illustrated first edition copy of William Wilkie's charming fables, a collection of sixteen fables with engravings. The first edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and seventeen plates.Half-title is present.ESTC citation number T138559.Collated, complete.A lovely collection of fables by William Wilkie.Written in iambic tetrameter, the sixteen poetical fables in this volume are reminiscent of John Gay. The sixteenth fable in this volume, 'The Hare and the Partan', is written in Scottish midlothian dialect. Fables include 'The Young Lady and the Looking-Glass', 'The Kite and the Rooks', 'The Muse and the Shepherd', and 'The Grasshopper and the Glowworm'. Including 'A Dialogue Between the Author and Friend' to the rear. Wilkie was a minister of the Scottish Church of Scotland, and a Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews. In a full…
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