The fables, of Æsop,. with a life of the author: and embellished with one hundred & twelve plates. ...
Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1793
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 3155786
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v.,plates ;. 8vo. Imperfect: Cropped with complete loss of date of publication in vol. 1 and with partial loss of date of publication in vol. 2. Provenance: Armorial bookplate: “Robert Warden, Parkhill”, with motto “Industria et Spe”, late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century. Note: Possible eighteenth- or nineteenth-century book seller’s code written on back of the front endpaper in vol. 1. Binding: Late eighteenth- or early-nineteenth century tree sheepskin. Upper board of v.1 detached.
Makers and roles
Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE)