Fables of Aesop and Others. Newly done into English. With an Application to each Fable. Illustrated with Cutts.
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Aesop
Croxall, Samuel (translator)
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1722
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At last I have arrived at a first edition of Croxall! And it is a good copy. Bodemann #107.1. Croxall is first mentioned at the end of the dedication to Halifax. At the beginning, what is labeled The Contents of the Fables is an AI. Use that to find a fable by one of its characters. This is a larger-format book (5¼ x 8¼) than any of its later editions or imitations that I know of. The Kirkall illustrations are the same size as, e.g., in the 1731 Third Edition, but the print and the margins are both larger here. It is such a pleasure to see the engravings distinct! Some that are especially clear and strong include FC (16), TMCM (63), GGE (101), The Tunny and the Dolphin (111), FWT (115), The Thief and the Dog (185), The Thief and the Boy (189), DM (223), The Envious Man and the Covetous (232), WSC (275), The Fox in the Well (285), and The Ape and Her Two Young Ones (316). I believe that I do not have Kirkall's frontispiece -- a statue of of Aesop proclaiming panta mythos -- in any other edition. Bodemann comments that about half of the visual motifs are taken from Barlow. 196 fables, 344 pages. Croxall gives at the end an index especially to qualities and persons.
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Printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts
Printed for J. Tonson at Shakespear's Head in the Strand, and J. Watts at the Printing Office in Wild-Court, near Lincolns-Inn Fields
Printed for J. Tonson at Shakespear's Head in the Strand, and J. Watts at the Printing Office in Wild-Court, near Lincolns-Inn Fields
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