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Fables, original and selected : autograph manuscript signed : [England], ca. 1823-1828.

BIB_ID
125758
Accession number
MA 2445-2446
Creator
Northcote, James, 1746-1831.
Display Date
ca. 1823-1828.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1965.
Description
2 v. (112, 183 p.), bound : ill. ; 33.2 cm
Notes
Dating from previous cataloging.
Duplicate copies of a letter regarding Northcote's Fables pasted to a leaf at the front of each volume.
Includes original composite designs formed from clippings of engravings and original drawings.
Manuscript includes 97 of the 101 fables published in this series (some radically different from their published versions) and 19 unpublished fables.
Second volume has title "One hundred fables, original and selected" and is dated 1825.
Provenance
Purchased on the Fellows Fund from H. W. Edwards, 1965.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine boxes (36.2 cm)