aesop translated samuel croxall sir (1 Ergebnisse)

Decorated Cloth. Octavo, original pictorial cloth boards with illustration of leaves in shades of red, yellow and green, black-stamped lettering on gilt label block (these are all on both upper board and spine), "The Prize Library" lettered in black upper board, b&w illus frontis plate, many b&w illus, pp xxxii, 364. N.d., c.1890. Previous owner's inscription (dated Christmas 1900) front free endpaper, endpapers toned, otherwise clean. Corners lightly bumped, head and foot of spine lightly rubbed. Very good condition. An attractive circa 1899 edition of a comprehensive collection of Aesop's ancient fables featuring anthropomorphised animals, copiously illustrated with 110 engraved illustrations. With added "morals, applications" by George Fyler Townsend (1814?1900). Townsend's edition of Aesop's fables introduced the practice of stating a succinct moral at the conclusion of each story, and continues to be influential.