[Rarebooks] FS: AESOP/L'ESTRANGE/STACY, 1717

[Norman Kane]

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STACY, E[DMUND].  SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE'S FABLES, WITH MORALS AND 
REFLECTIONS, IN ENGLISH VERSE.   London: M. Jenour for Tho. Harbin . . . 
1717 [actually 1716].   Old panelled calf, somewhat worn, rebacked some 
time ago, inner joints reinforced with white tape, old names on end 
paper.  32;316 pages.  Frontispiece by Vertue, headpieces, &c.  First 
edition.  Foxon p.751.  Although there is a mention in the text of a 
possible second volume, none was ever published.  Rather scarce: OCLC 
locates only 3 copies (one lacking title page); RLIN locates 2 copies, both 
in the UK.
$350.00

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