Aesop's Fables Illustrated
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Aesop
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1867
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Here is a pleasant little surprise. Earlier, I had worked my way back through editions of 1873, 1870, and 1868. The seller had told me that the last of these was a first edition. Now here is the identical book published not by Samuel R. Wells but by Fowler and Wells, Publishers at the same address a year earlier. The book is identical with that of 1868, down to the broken typeface on the page numbers for the last two units in the beginning AI. The beginning also has a list of the fifty-five illustrations. It seems to me that what we have here are copies of Tenniel's (not Wolfe's) work. They are now often signed by the engraver (e.g., Felter, Howland, or Orr). As in the other copies, the advertisements at the back of the book are strong on phrenology. The book is in only fair condition.
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Fowler and Wells
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5574 (Access ID)