The fables of Æsop and others : translated into human nature / designed and drawn on the wood by Charles H. Bennett author of 'Shadows', ; engraved by Swain.
Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1857
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100837
Summary
Bibliographic description
[3], 22 leaves, [23] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 4to. Historic shelfmark in pencil on front free endpaper verso: "D.1.4". Pencil number on rear free endpaper verso: "12119". Pencil tick on front free endpaper verso. Pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "23 Plates". Pencil note (in a different hand) on verso of leaf 22: "Perfect. J.H.". Provenance: Nineteenth-century pictorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Charles Plumptre Johnson'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (coat of arms in carved oval frame) with motto ‘Si je puis’ and lettered: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on front free endpaper verso: 'Robson & Kerslake, Booksellers, 23 Coventry Street, Haymarket, London, W.'. Binding: Nineteenth-century red morocco; triple gilt fillet to form a border; five recessed cords; five false bands; spine gilt, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Fables of Æsop / Bennett'; double gilt fillet on board edges; elaborately gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; dark sea-green endpapers. Binder's gilt stamp on frotn pastedown: 'Bound by Riviere & Son'. Original wrappers bound in at end.
Makers and roles
Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE), author Charles Henry Bennett (1828-1867), author Joseph Swain (Oxford 1820 - Ealing 1909), engraver (printmaker) Charles Henry Bennett (1828-1867), artist