Fables, Original and Selected;

by the most Esteemed European and Oriental Authors by Introductory dissertation, biographical notices by, G. Moir Bussey

$250 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

London: Willoughby and Co., 1842. First British edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXXIV, 2 , 352pp. Contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering and tooling on spine. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece. Illustrated head-, tail chapters, and initials. Delightful work being an homage to the Fable genre, with text from Aesop, La Fontaine, Nivernois, Lessing, Dodsley, Gay, Croxall, Yriarte, Goldsmith, Florian,

• Binding: Hardcover

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