The fables of Æsop paraphras'd in verse, and adorn'd with sculpture,. by John Ogilby.
Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1651
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3236735
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],64,55,[1],55,[1],64p., [2],2-81 [i.e.80] plates:. port.;. 4to. Former acc. no. 4216 Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: name cut from title but leaving date 1673. G.R. Nassau (sale 1824, lot 152). J.J. Falconer (sale 1877). Binding: English straight-grained red morocco about 1795 (endleaf watermarked 1794). Plain flat spine with lettering and cross fillets only. Red, white and green headbands, yellow edges, Gloucester marbled endleaves. 225x170 mm.
Makers and roles
Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE) John Ogilby (1600-1676) Wenceslaus Hollar (Prague 1607 - London 1677)