[Rarebooks] FS: Bewick's "Select Fables of Aesop..." Finely bound 19th c. ed.

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Aesop. BEWICK'S SELECT FABLES OF AESOP AND OTHERS. In Three Parts. I. 
Fables Extracted from Dodsley's. II. Fables with Reflections in Prose and Verse. 
III. Fables in Verse. To Which Are Prefixed The Life of Aesop, and an Essay 
Upon Fable by Oliver Goldsmith. Faithfully Reprinted from the Rare Newcastle 
Edition Published by T. Saint in 1784. With the Original Wood Engravings by 
Thomas Bewick, and an Illustrated Preface by Edwin Pearson. London: Bickers 
& Son. No date (1871). xl,312pp. Index. Profusely illustrated with text 
woodcuts. Frontispiece and title within a printed red ruled border. Finely 
bound in 19th c. elaborately gilt tooled full red crushed morocco. A.e.g.     
$375.00 (trade discount allowed)

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