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FABLES, OF AESOP AND OTHER EMINENT MYTHOLOGISTS: WITH MORALS AND REFLEXIONS
by (AESOP) L ESTRANGE, Roger
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Glendale, California, United States
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About This Item
Folio (8-1/2 by 13 inches), contemporary full brown calf, Skillfully rebacked with blind-stamped spine, raised bands, red morocco spine label. First edition of former censor Roger L Estrange s classic version of Aesop s Fables, with copper-engraved frontispiece portrait of L Estrange and fine copperplate frontispiece of Aesop. In 1690 John Locke was the first to suggest Aesop as a beginning book for children. Shortly thereafter, Tory pamphleteer and onetime Surveyor of the Press, Roger L Estrange, was commissioned to produce this edition of fables, likely the first compiled expressly for children. He included many other fabulists besides Aesop, notably a selection from La Fontaine within 20 years of the first appearance of any of his fables in French. It is highly probable that this was their earliest appearance in English (Muir, 24). Simple and somewhat racy in style, L Estrange s edition was continuously reprinted, helping to popularize both Aesop and the genre of fables among children. The most extensive collection of fables in existence, this compilation also includes a biography of Aesop, an alphabetical table of the fables, and fables by Barlandus, Anianus, Abstemius, Poggius and La Fontaine (DNB). Wing A706. Hodnett, Aesop in England, 63. A very attractive copy.
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- Bookseller
- Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 049
- Title
- FABLES, OF AESOP AND OTHER EMINENT MYTHOLOGISTS: WITH MORALS AND REFLEXIONS
- Author
- (AESOP) L ESTRANGE, Roger
- Format/Binding
- Contemporary calf
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- R. Sare, et al.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1692
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Literature, Greek Classics, Children's Literature
- Size
- Folio
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Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
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