Editor's Preface, signed J.B.R. [i.e. J.B. Rundell] notes: "A number of Fables, about 130 altogether, which were not in the first and second Editions of this work, have been added to the present Edition, under the care of another Editor."
"Cassell, Petter & Galpin, Belle Sauvage Works, London, E.C. 1276"--colophon.
Numerous engraved full- and half-page plates, including frontispiece, variously signed: Ernest Griset or E.G., Pannemaker et fils or Pannemaker-Doms sc., Rd. Taylor, W. Thomas sc., R.C. West sc., R.S. Marriott sc., J. Quartley, J. Greenaway, W.H. sc., W.B. Gardner sc., Swain sc., and Whitehead sc.; decorative tailpieces.
Includes "List of Illustrations" at beginning and "Index of Contents" at end.
Publisher's advertisements on last [4] pages.
"For dear Roger with love from Edie, Herbert, Ethel, Violet, Ynez Yom, Val, Arthur, Nancy, & Claude - September 10th, 1884"--inscription in black ink on front paste-down.
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Æsop's fables / illustrated by Ernest Griset ; with text based chiefly upon Croxall, La Fontaine, and L'Estrange.
Accession number:
PML 88814
Uniform title:
Aesop's fables. English.
Published:
London ; Paris ; New York : Cassell Petter & Galpin, [188?]
Description:
[2], viii, 422, [4] p. : ill. (engravings) ; 26 x 20 cm
Credit:
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes:
Binding:
Publisher's pictorial green sand-grain cloth, blocked in gold, black, and blind, with brown end-papers and bevelled edges.
Provenance:
From the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
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