[Rarebooks] FS: 1st ed. of Aesop's Fables illustrated by John Tenniel. London: 1848

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(TENNIEL, JOHN) Aesop. AESOP'S FABLES: a New Version, Chiefly from Original 
Sources, by the Rev. Thomas James, M.A., with More Than One Hundred 
Illustrations Designed by John Tenniel. London: John Murray. 1848. The first 
edition with Tenniel's illustrations. xxvi,(2),232pp. Index. Added engraved 
pictorial title. Profusely illus. with text woodcuts. Full polished calf covers 
with ornately gilt borders and dentelles, expertly rebacked with the orig. 
gilt tooled (with fable images) backstrip, somewhat darker in shade than the 
covers, laid down. A.e.g. This copy without the ads at back.     $375.00 
(trade discount allowed)
One of Tenniel's (1820-1914) earliest and most famous works.

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