The Fables of Aesop The Fables of Barlandus The Fables of Anianus The Fables of Abstemius The Fables of Poggius Miscellany Fables The Fables of Several Authors 18th-C Edition
Aesop; Barlandus (et al)
$55.00
Size: 8vo
Collection of fables by Aesop, Barlandus, Anianus, Abstemius, Poggius, and containing a section of miscellaneous Fables of several authors; includes the text of each fable, accompanied by the ‘Moral’, and ‘Reflexion’; lacks prelims and title page, so we have no publisher or publishing date, but judging by the typeface we think it’s an 18th-C edition (inscription to front endpaper is dated 1847, but it looks older than this – please see pictures included with the listing); bound in full calf with gilt titling and devices to spine; heavy toning/tanning to pages throughout; prominent wear to leather, wear and hair-line cracks to leather along spine, loss to head and tail of spine, 1x1cm loss to title label.