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Select Fables of Aesop and Other Fabulists. In Three Books. New Edition
by Aesop; Dodsley, R. et al
- Used
- poor
- Condition
- Poor
- Seller
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Dover, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
London: Printed for William Osborne and J and H Mozley Gainsborough. Leather. Poor. no date, perhaps late 1700s. Stated new edition. Full calf leather. xlviii, 228 pp., plus index. Small woodcut illustrations throughout. A collection of fables, including some by Aesop, gathered by R. Dodsley and accompanied by a lengthy historical introduction. Separated into three books, Ancients, Moderns and Newly Invented (original). POOR condition. Heavy scuffing to the leather, with some soiling, fading and staining. Heavy wear to the leather along the edges, spine and hinges, with chipping and loss. Heavy cracking to the spine, with loss of leather to the head and tail. Ursula written on the rear cover. Covers very tenuously attached. Text block very shaky, with many leaves tenuously bound in. All endpapers missing up to the title page. Names and doodles on the inside covers. Some writing on the last page. Very very worn copy.
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- Bookseller
- Mare Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019320
- Title
- Select Fables of Aesop and Other Fabulists. In Three Books. New Edition
- Author
- Aesop; Dodsley, R. et al
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Printed for William Osborne and J and H Mozley Gainsborough
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
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- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Folklore;
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Mare Booksellers
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Leaves
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- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Title Page
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