FABLES OF AESOP
by Charles Bennett, Aesop
$850 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available
London: Chatto & Windus, 1875. Second edition of this Victorian tour de force, with fine and fabulous hand-colored images of humanized animals. Very good. Item #34370 Eric Quayle notes that Bennett 1829-1867 had a short career which was terminated by consumption but his books were extremely popular, most passing though several editions ; this book contains some of Bennett's finest and most vigorous work 217 . The
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