Three Hundred Aesop's Fables
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Authors
Aesop
Greenaway, John (engraver)
Townsend, George Fyler (editor)(translator)
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1885 , 1885?
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Routledge first printed fifty of Weir's illustrations with a Townsend translation of 300 fables in 1865, and in 1867 expanded the book to include 114 illustrations. See my comments on that edition under 1867. Routledge produced a number of derivative editions, apparently always staying with 300 fables, while others (like Donohue) added some Croxall texts for a total of 350 fables. Here is one of Routledge's follow-up volumes, this one distinguished by being in the Excelsior Series, as the cover and front end-papers proclaim. This is a tight book with some foxing but good runs on the illustrations. In pagination and layout it is a nearly exact match for the 1867 edition. Both the Ludgate and NY addresses have changed on the title page, for example, but little else is different. One can see the breakup of a printing plate on the last number at the lower right on the last page (224). The 5 there is losing its top line. The spine, as is typical for these Weir editions, reads only Aesop's Fables without any mention of a number. Check my comments on the similar copies under 1885?/1900?
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George Routledge and Sons
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3517 (Access ID)