THE FABLES OF AESOP: SELECTED, TOLD ANEW & THEIR HISTORY TRACED BY JOSEPH JACOBS 1894

[AESOP]. The Fables of Aesop: Selected, Told Anew and Their History Traced by Joseph Jacobs. London: Macmillan & Co., 1894.

FIRST EDITION THUS. 'Presentation Copy'; cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (18.5 x 12 x 2.5 cm); pp. xxv, 222, [6] publisher's catalogue. English text. Publisher's original decorative cloth; all page edges gilt; coated endpapers; half-title; illustrated throughout by Richard Heighway; 'Presentation Copy' blind stamped to title-page. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure. Covers and contents very well-preserved. Trivial bumping to spine ends and points. A beautiful copy. Scarce thus.