1692 1st Edtn FABLES OF AESOP By Sir Robert L'Estrange Illus. Very Good Fables

London: R. Sare, T. Sawbridge, B. Took, 1692. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. folio (fo 12 × 19 305 × 483). N/A. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Very Early English Translation, Scar?e. Complete. Illustration frontis present. Some Gothic Black Letter printing, portrait frontispiece that is in some other editions is not present in this edition, 1 etched and engraved plate, repaired title page with chipped loss to lower-right margin, rebacked and relayed contemporary two-tone panelled calf, refreshed endpapers Very Scare - Worldcat has three copies listed worlwide. Please see photos as part of condition report 1692 1st Edition , FABLES OF AESOP and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections By Sir Robert L'Estrange Sir Roger L'Estrange (17 December 1616 – 11 December 1704) was an English pamphleteer, author, courtier, and press censor. Throughout his life L'Estrange was frequently mired in controversy and acted as a staunch ideological defender of King Charles II's regime during the Restoration era. His works played a key role in the emergence of a distinct 'Tory' bloc during the Exclusion Crisis of 1679-81. Perhaps his best known polemical pamphlet was An Account of the Growth of Knavery, which ruthlessly attacked the parliamentary opposition to Charles II and his successor James, Duke of York (later King James II), placing them as fanatics who misused contemporary popular anti-Catholic sentiment to attack the Restoration court and the existing social order in order to pursue their own political ends. The Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the collapse of the Restoration political order heralded the end of L'Estrange's career in public life, although his greatest translation work, that of Aesop's Fables, saw publication in 1692. Illustrated By: N/A Format: Hardcover, Language: English Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: R. Sare, T. Sawbridge, B. Took, London folio (fo 12 × 19 305 × 483),Pages 487 ISBN: Over 500 fables. It was also hugely influential, with his own morals, a Life of Aesop, and fables added from Avianus, Abstemious, Poggio, and others, whose fables now often appear under Aesop's name. E'Estrange's of Aesop—hunchbacked and pot-bellied, and a writer in the midst of animals—is based on the description in Maximus Planudes' Life of Aesop (item 1.2). Chapters The Preface An Alphabetical Table, Referring to the Number of the Respective Fables The Life of Æsop Chapter I: Of Æsop’s Countrey, Condition, and Person. Chapter II: Æsop and his Fellow-slaves Upon their Journey to Ephesus. Chapter III: The Sale of Æsop to Xanthus. Chapter IV: Xanthus Presents Æsop to his Wife. Chapter V: Æsop’s Answer to a Gard’ner. Chapter VI: Æsop’s Invetion to bring his Mistress back to her Husband, after she had Left him. Chapter VII: An Entertainment of Neates Tongues. Chapter VIII: A Second Treat of Tongues. Chapter IX: Æsop bring his Master a Guest That had no sort of Curiosity in him. Chapter X: Æsop’s Answer to a Magistrate. Chapter XI: Xanthus undertakes to Drink the Sea dry. Chapter XII: Æsop Baffles the Superstition of Augury. Chapter XIII: Æsop finds hidden Treasure. Chapter XIV: Æsop Expounds upon an Augury, and is made Free. Chapter XV: Æsop Presents himselfe before the King of Lydia. Chapter XVI: Æsop Adopts Ennus. Ennus’s Ingratitude and Falseness, and Æsop’s Good Nature. Chapter XVII: Æsop’s Letters of Morality to his Son Ennus. Chapter XVIII: Æsop’s Voyage to Delphos; his Barbarous Usage There, and his Death. The Fables of Æsop, &c. Fable I: A Cock and a Diamond Fable II: A Cat and a Cock Fable III: A Wolf and a Lamb Fable IV: A Frog and a Mouse Fable V: A Lion and a Bear Fable VI: A Dog and a Shadow Fable VII: A Lion, an Ass, &c. a Hunting Fable VIII: A Wolf and a Crane Fable IX: A Countryman and a Snake Fable X: A Lion and an Asse Fable XI: A City Mouse and a Country Mouse Fable XII: A Crow and a Muscle Fable XIII: A Fox and a Raven Fable XIV: An Old Lion Fable XV: An Asse and a Whelp Fable XVI: A Lion and a Mouse Fable XVII: A Sick Kite and her Mother Fable XVIII: A Swallow and other Birds Fable XIX: The Frogs chuse a King Fable XX: The Kite, Hawk, and Pigeons Fable XXI: A Dog and a Thief Fable XXII: A Wolf and a Sow Fable XXIII: A Mountain in Labour Fable XXIV: An Asse and an Ungrateful Master Fable XXV: An Old Dog and his Master Fable XXVI: An Asse, an Ape and a Mole Fable XXVII: The Hares and the Frogs Fable XXVIII: A Wolf, Kid, and Goat Fable XXVIX: A Dog, a Sheep, and a Wolf Fable XXX: A Countryman and a Snake ... The Fables of Barlandus, &c. Fable CCII: A Lyon and a Frog ... The Fables of Anianus, &c. Fable CCXV: An Oak and a Willow Fable CCCXXXIV: A Peacock and a Crane ... The Fables of Abstemius, &c. Fable CCLIII: Demades the Orator ... The Fables of Poggius Fable CCCLII: Industry and Sloth ... Miscellany Fables Fable CCCLXXIV: A Fox and a Cat SKU: BTETM0001543 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 3Kg