Dodsley's Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists. In Three Books. As well for the Use of Schools as Young Gentlemen
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Aesop
Bachet, Claude-Gaspard
Dodsley, Robert
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1763
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See my comments on the Birmingham first edition by Baskerville in 1761. June had collected this book because, I believe, of her particular interest in books in Ireland. A first difference that strikes the eye here is that the frontispiece is changed from The Unveiling of Truth to the same bright mask that so often serves as frontispiece to Gay's fables. The plates seem to be identical. The title-page for the first book occurs here before the first set of illustrations, whereas there it came after these illustrations. The book itself has suffered some wear. The first set of illustrations for Book III has lost its bottom tier; the remaining illustrations have been pasted onto a page facing the first fable of the book (65), which has itself been laid in. The index at the back stops after the first five fables of the third book. Calf binding with marbled boards. A precious gift from a dear friend!
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Printed for T. and J. Whitehouse
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3554 (Access ID)