[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce 18th c. illustrated Aesop

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Aesop. AESOP'S FABLES. With Instructive Morals and Reflections...
Containing Two Hundred and Forty Fables, with a Cut Engrav'd on Copper
to Each Fable. And a Life of Aesop Prefixed. London: Printed by S.
Richardson, for T. & T. Longman et al. No date (1753). 12mo.
(2),xxxiv,(2),192pp. Copper engraved title page, one unnumbered plate
(in the "Life of Aesop") and 24 numbered copper plates each with 10
illustrations. Cont. calf, rubbed, hinges partially cracked but holding
soundly. Later red morocco spine label. $450.00 (trade discount allowed)
A scarce 18th century illustrated edition. ESTC records two issues
(ours with no erratum on p. xiv), each with only one location in the U.
S.!

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