Fables, of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflexions. By Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt.
Sir Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704)
Category
Books
Date
1692
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3217164
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10], 28, [8], 144, 137-306, 319-480 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; fol. Shelf mark label: Case N. Shelf 6. [i.e.: a Lyme Park book]. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: Lyme. Signed J.F. Badeley fecit 1904. [i.e.: Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee 'Badeley' no. 119). Manuscript inscription on title page: Frances Legh [i.e.: Frances Legh (1670-1728)]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full calf; double blind fillet border, blind roll spine edge; rebacked, spine entirely replaced; green spine labels: Aesop's Fables Part I. Nineteenth-century gilt ram's head crest on spine.
Makers and roles
Sir Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704) Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE)