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Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists in Three Books
(F.C. & J. Rivington; Wilkie & Robinson; et alPrinted for F.C. & J. Rivington, 1812)
This little book with a deteriorating calf spine and a separated calf front cover fits nicely among the Dodsley editions I already have. It seems that the earliest editions from the first in 1761 up to about 1777 favored ...
The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with Designs on Wood, by Thomas Bewick
(Printed by E. Walter for T. Bewick and Son, 1818)
What a wonderful find! I am so happy to have this book in my hand! It once belonged to the Battersea Public Libraries, and perhaps that is only fitting for a volume from Bewick's own hand. It shows some wear, and the ...
The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with Designs on Wood, by Thomas Bewick
(Printed by E. Walter for T. Bewick and SonPrinted by E.Walkerfor T. Bewick and son. Sold by them, Longman and Co. London,, 1818)
This is the highly prized second edition of the 1818 Fables of Aesop. Bodemann 236.2. As Metzner there points out, we now have on xvi at the end of the Introduction, not the earlier Druckfehlerteufel but rather an old ...
The Fables of Aesop and Others with Designs on Wood
(D. Appleton & Company, 1818)
Note that this is a reprint of Bewick's later Aesopic work, not the Select Fables of 1776/1784. Comparison of this work with the 1975 Paddington reprint of the 1818 edition raises questions: this one is smaller and shows ...
Aesopi Fabulae (Eton School)
(Cummings and HilliardCummings et Hilliard, 1812)
AI on v. 164 fables in Greek, with Latin notes. No illustrations. Compare how two books have weathered 175 years!
Two Fables of Aesop With Designs on Wood
(Vagabond Press of Lloyd Whydotski, 1818)
Nice cuts of The Lion, the Tiger, and the Wolf and The Envious Man and the Covetous. A curious little book. Notice the spelling of the city in Wisconsin!
The Fables of Aesop and Others with Designs on Wood
(Methuen & Co., 1818)
Identical in almost all respects with the Appleton edition of the same year. The differences I can find include a slightly different title notation pasted onto the red linen of the spine. And this edition includes a ...
Aesop's Fables Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices
(Printed at the Chiswick Press by C. Whittingham for J. Carpenter J. Booker, Sharpe and Hailes, and J. Carr,, 1813)
This is a curious find. At first it seems very similar to two smaller books, published in 1839 and 1841, with which it shares the words emblematical devices and a title-page illustration of a man seated in the countryside ...
Fabulae Aesopi Selectae, or Select Fables of Aesop
(Printed (by M. Carey?) for Bennett and Walton, C. and A. Conrad and Co, et alPrinted for Bennett and Walton, 1810)
The sub-title here is worth noticing: With an English Translation, more Literal than any yet extant, Designed for the Readier Instruction of Beginners in the Latin Tongue. Compare this edition with my 1802 Philadelphia ...
Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists. In Three Books
(Printed for Mathew Carey, 1811)
This is a bare-bones American publication of Dodsley's three books of fables. That is, there are no introductory chapters or final tables or appendices. The paper is quite fragile. The illustrations, one to a fable, are ...