[Rarebooks] FS: Rare book for blind children with raised letter text & illustratons. Glasgow: 1838

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[Alston, John]. A SELECTION OF FABLES WITH WOOD CUTS, FOR THE USE OF THE 
BLIND. Second Edition Greatly Enlarged. Glasgow: Printed in the Asylum, by the 
Institution Press. 1838. Oblong 8vo. ff.28. Embossed leaves of raised letter 
text, including 17 text illustrations after woodblocks. Leaves stabbed & tied at 
inner margin, bound in orig. patterned cloth over marbled boards. Embossed 
green paper label (reading “Fables”) mounted on front cover. Rare.     $1,250.00 
(trade discount allowed)
Printed in the embossed alphabet designed for the use of the blind by Dr. 
Edmond Fry. The OCLC lists John Alston as the author of this work. The first 
edition, also 1838, contains a total of 23 leaves. OCLC records one copy only, at 
Harvard. Our expanded (to 28 leaves) second edition is recorded with one copy 
only, at Princeton.

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