Thomas Bewick The Fables Of Aesop With An Original Leaf From The First Edition 1818 Of The Fables Of

by Thomas Aesop Bewick

$125 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1983. 4to, 58, 4 pp. Frontispiece, 8 illustrations, an original leaf, and a proof from an original block. Original brown boards, white paper spine label. As issued, in fine condition. § Edition limited to 518 numbered copies. The inserted leaf is “ Jupiter and the Ass” and the proof is The Boys and the Frogs . Not a rare book but an important addition to Bewick scholarship. There is a biographical

• Printing: later

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