Select fables in three parts. . Part I. Fables extracted from Dodsley's. Part II. Fables with reflections, in prose and verse. Part III. Fables in verse. To which are prefixed, The life of Aesop; and an essay upon fable.
Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1784
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Cherryburn, Northumberland
NT 3064612
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 308p. [ii] . ill.. (woodcuts) . 12mo.. Second state of this edition with index. Provenance: Bookplate: 'From the Bewick collection of the Rev. Thomas Hugo, and described in The Bewick Collector, no. 24';inscribed by Hugo:'This is the finest copy of Saints edition of the Select Fables I ever saw - I purchased it from Mr. John Bell of Gateshead who was one of Bewick's chums'; also leather bookplate: Sinclair Hamilton. Loose print from block engraved by John Bewick for the frontispiece of this book; also bookplate on p. ii: John Bell.. Binding: original blind tooled calf binding with gilt border.
Makers and roles
Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE) John Bewick (Northumberland 1760 - Northumberland 1795) Thomas Bewick (Cherryburn 1753 - Gateshead 1828) Robert Dodsley (1703-1764). Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)