Search Results: fables of aesop and others translated by croxall samuel

London: William P. Nimmo, 1877. Reissue. Small Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Corner, J.M. Front endpaper removed, first gathering loose but included, minor split to cloth along rear edge of spine, small sticker remnant on spine base. 1877 Small Hard Cover. xviii, 288, 12 pp. Color frontispiece by J.M. Corner. A collection of 196 fables by Aesop, followed by an index and a collection of Moral and Entertaining Anecdotes by other authors, translated into English.

Philadelphia 1847 Cowperthwait. Hardcover. 16mo., frontis, 358p., 198 illustrations, full leather (original boards remounted professionally with full leather spine , inner hinges cracked. ) Good, light staining on a few pages, tiny puncture hole in frontispiece illustration. .

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Longmans & Co.,, 1836. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 24th edition, 1836. Frontispiece. Publication of 329 pages. Full leather binding. Marbled endpapers. There is gilt on the spine and front of the book. With 5 raised bands. The boards are worn due to the age. Internally there are marks and foxing, throughout the book. The text remains bright and clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: Evert Duyckinck, 1813. No Statement of Printing . Hardcover. Poor/No Dust Jacket. A Poor copy in full brown leather, with the front cover detached but present, and the spine label chipped. The paper is tanned but legible and unmarked, and the text block binding is fairly tight. 1820 owner's name of Anna Croxall.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Swan and Son). Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1809. 18th Edn. Hardcover. Full leather. Both leather covers are detached, corners knocked, edges scraped. Previous owners name written to front endpaper. Black/white frontispiece and illustrations. 330pp plus index. Pencil Name/writing on rear endpaper. Contents include; The bear and the bee hives, the wanton calf, the fox and the tiger, the proud frog, the eagle and the crow, the dog in the manger, the two crabs, the ape and the fox, the sensible ass etc, etc. Light thumbing/foxing spots but overall internally clean and bright. ; 108063; 8vo .

20th ed.Scarce. 16mo (100 x 170cm) 300pp, missing last page of index. Croxall's edition first published in 1722. 196 fables, each with a woodcut. Text in very good condition, no foxing but some pages slightly browned.

New York: Evert Duyckinck, 1813. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Slipcase/Very Good internally. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Repaired and rebound by Amy Wertheimer in 1987 with matching slipcase with burgundy silk pull. A lovely volume. Leaves toned, touch of foxing, professional repairs of torn leaves, else tight and unmarred. Slipcase tight. Half bound, burgundy leather spine and tips, gray paper boards, in blind lettering, gray endpages. 32mo. 334pp. Illus. (b/w plates).

London:: Printed for J. Johnson,, 1809.. The Eighteenth Edition. Carefully Revised and Improved.. later old half morocco; gilt spine; marbled sides; all edges stained yellow.. The last engraving in the book has been partially hand-colored; some very slight rubbing to the leather. Tight and sound.. 16mo,. Illustrated from engravings.. With Instructive Applications: and a Print before Each Fable by Samuel Croxall.

EB. Good+. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville for R. And J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1762. Lxvii, 204 pgs. Third Edition. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and 14 engraved plates + illustrative head and tail pieces. Bound in full calf with and raised bands present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (boards scuffed and worn and bumped at the corners; gilt rubbed off of spine label). Previous owner's bookplate present to the reverse of the front board, name present to the title page. Foxing present. Text is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with Aesop's name have descended to modern times through a number of sources. They continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as… Read More

Printed for W. Osborne, T. Griffin, and J. M. Mozley and Co. Gainsbrough. London. 1793. A New Edition. Carefully Revised, and Improved. 12mo.. pp. (xxiv), 329, (vii) Index. Engraved frontispiece and 196 woodcuts to illustrate the fables. Contemporary sheep newly rebacked, the fore-edge of the front board showing insect damage to the leather, ownership inscription of John Smith, 1800, and his initials on the three sides of the text-block, a very good copy. *SEE ROSCOE Bewick Bibliography, pp. 151 ff; 175-6 for a detailed comparison of Croxall's edition with Bewick.