[Rarebooks] FS: Very rare illustrated fable book. London: 1736

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[Fenelon, Francoise de Salignac de la Mothe]. THE TALES AND FABLES OF THE 
LATE ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAY, Author of Telemachus, in French and English. 
Written Originally for the Instruction of a Young Prince; and Now Published 
for the Use of Schools. To Which Is Prefix’d, and Account of the Author’s 
Life, Extracted from the Memoirs of the Chevalier Ramsay… By Nathaniel Gifford… 
Illustrated with Twenty-nine Copper-Plates. Engraven by George Bickham, Junior. 
London: Printed for John Hawkins. 1736. (4),xxii,(2),164pp. Double column 
text, French and English opposite. Illustrated with 29 half-page copper plate 
text engravings. Title printed in red & black. Finely bound by F. Bedford in 19th 
c. gilt decorated polished calf, red calf spine labels. Bookplates on front 
free endpaper and front pastedown (from the Huth Library). Hinges a bit rubbed. 
    $4,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
The rare, first illustrated English edition of this work. The English text 
was first translated in 1729. The 1789 illustrated edition in English has 
appeared at auction a few times in the last 30 years, but never a copy of the 1736 
edition.

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