Aesop’s Fables With Upwards Of One Hundred And Fifty Engravings On Wood

Published by Booker and Dolman, Whittaker And Co, Simpkin And Co, Tegg And Son and C Whittingham, Chiswick, London, UK. Date: 1838. First edition thus. Original red cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Printed at the Chiswick Press by Charles Whittingham. Fine bookseller’s label of Nye in Tunbridge Wells. Size: 8cm x 12.3cm. pp. xii + 228. A fine wood-engraving accompanies each fable. Neat inscription dated 1848 to the verso of the title page. Cloth very slightly dusty and rubbed but generally bright and clean. Binding nice and tight. Pages and illustrations very nice and clean. A near fine, bright, clean copy. Scarce in any form and a very nice copy indeed in original cloth.