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THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON
THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON

THE FABLES OF AESOP 1793 IN TWO VOLUMES, FINELY BOUND BY WILLIAM JACKSON

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[AESOP]. The Fables, With a Life of the Author; and Embellished with One Hundred & Twelve Plates. London: printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 4th June, 1793.

First edition thus. English translation by Samuel Croxall. Complete in two volumes. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Tall octavos (240 x 150 mm.). Pp. lxv, 189; xi, 248. 2 engraved titles plus 110 plates. Bound in later full polished calf gilt by William Jackson bookbinder Aberdeen, red and green morocco spine labels, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Collated complete, bindings tight and secure, the hinges intact, minor shelf wear to covers, some light scattered foxing, without previous ownership markings.

Notes: First Stockdale edition, printed by T. Bensley. The plates are by thirty different engravers (and four unsigned plates): Landseer, J. Chapman, Bell, Eastgate, Bromley, Skelton, Audinet, Martin, Barrett, and others. Bentley mentions that the work was advertised at the end of the second volume of Gay's 1793 Fables as containing William Blake engravings, however there are no signed Blake plates. See Bentley Blake Books 460 (note).
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