Aesop's Fables and Other Fables 1786; Dodsley Edition
Aesop's Fables and Other Fables 1786; Dodsley Edition
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Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists. In Three Books. By R. Dodsley. A New Edition. London; Printed for J. Dodsley; 1786.
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Provenance: Contains various inscriptions, including "This book is 209 years old next July 1837", "Berwick 8th July 1828", T W & A Oliver Knowrouth" (?), etc.
Size: 100 x 170 x 25 mm (approx.)
Condition:
Spine with very minor wear. Tooled label present. Both boards very minor wear to joints and hinges starting. Boards with very minor scuffing and scratches. Front board with pen ownership inscription. Shelf and edge wear. Dulling to page edges. Pen inscriptions on preliminaries and front pastedown. Frontispiece lightly transferred onto title page. Pen inscription on small number of pages. Text block very clean with very sporadic very minor foxing. Very small pencil inscriptions in margins of the index. Uncollated but appears complete.