One Hundred Fables, Original and Selected
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Harvey, William
Northcote, James
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1828
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Here is a second copy of the first edition of the first volume of Northcote's fables. The binding and cover are apparently contemporary and surely simpler than the leather cover of the first copy. Remarkably, this copy has the same lack of the frontispiece portrait of Northcote. The book is inscribed in 1831. An alert reader has corrected the very last page of the book itself (272). Those corrections make note of the incorrect order on 272 of fables 89, 90, and 91. In this copy, several pages of advertisements follow that last page. In keeping with a standard practice in this collection, I will keep this copy of the first edition in the collection as well as the earlier copy. Remarks made on that copy follow. At last I have found my way back to a first edition of Northcote's first volume. The second volume was published posthumously in 1833. Northcote himself died in 1831. Compare this book with the second edition of 1829. The illustrations are again here remarkably sharp. For a sample from this work, try Fable XLVIII on 125. Death summons an old man and upbraids him for not heeding his earlier warnings. The man cannot comprehend earlier warnings. Death mentions the deaths of the man's contemporaries and even of his children and repeats his demand that the man follow now. The tailpiece shows two men looking far out to sea with a telescope. Both illustrations are well executed, though in different styles.
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Geo. Lawford
George Lawford
George Lawford
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10094 (Access ID)