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Select Fables of Aesop In Three Books
Aesop · London
- Author
- Aesop
- Date
- 1761
- Place
- London
- Publisher
- R. and J. Dodsley
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 8vo.(5.25" x 7.375") Three quarter red leather with generous corners, single gilt rule to leather edges, single gilt rule framing leather, over marbled boards. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title to gilt rule framed second compartment, gilt publisher/vol# to gilt framed third, gilt "Extra Illustrated" to foot, other compartments with gilt double rule frames to each. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Slight rubbing to board bottoms. A beautiful set of books. Hundred+ of engravings from the original three volumes, "Extra Illustrated" with plates from the 1722 edition of the Fables of Aesop and Others by Samuel Croxall.
- Format
- This edition of Aesop was edited and partially written by Robert Dodsley; published on 23 February 1761, it was an instant success. James E. Tierney, in his edition of Dodsley's correspondences notes that the Monthly Review called it "ingenious.elegant.and very useful.a classical performance." The Critical Review praised Dodsley as the "best prose-writer of apologues of this or any country." There are fables by Aesop, as well as more recent writers, not to mention ones by Dodsley and his friends, and Dodsley covered himself in glory with this publication. It was also printed by Baskerville in a larger and more elegant format (Gaskell 14).
- Category
- Literature & Poetry
- Record
- S.I.6151
Select Fables of Aesop In Three Books Author: Aesop 8vo.(5.25" x 7.375")1761. Aesop. London. R. and J. Dodsley. Three quarter red leather with generous corners, single gilt rule to leather edges, single gilt rule framing leather, over marbled boards. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title to gilt rule framed second compartment, gilt publisher/vol# to gilt framed third, gilt "Extra Illustrated" to foot, other compartments with gilt double rule frames to each. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Slight rubbing to board bottoms. A beautiful set of books. Hundred+ of engravings from the original three volumes, "Extra Illustrated" with plates from the 1722 edition of the Fables of Aesop and Others by Samuel Croxall.
From Wiki: Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of varied and unclear origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media.
This edition of Aesop was edited and partially written by Robert Dodsley; published on 23 February 1761, it was an instant success. James E. Tierney, in his edition of Dodsley's correspondences notes that the Monthly Review called it "ingenious, elegant, and very useful. A classical performance." The Critical Review praised Dodsley as the "best prose-writer of apologues of this or any country." There are fables by Aesop, as well as more recent writers, not to mention ones by Dodsley and his friends, and Dodsley covered himself in glory with this publication. It was also printed by Baskerville in a larger and more elegant format (Gaskell 14).
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