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Fables of Aesop and Others. Translated into English. With Instructive Applications and a Print before each Fable
(Simon Probasco, 1829)
For a start on this little book, consult my comments on the 1804 and 1807 Mozley editions, from which this book seems to have been carefully copied. Like those two and my eleventh and seventeenth editions of Croxall's ...
Fables Inédites des XIIe, XIIIe et XIVe Siècles et Fables de la Fontaine
(Etienne Cabin, 1825)
I already have a copy of this book. This second copy differs in one essential respect: It adds a name under La Fontaine's picture in the frontispiece! How curious! It differs in other respects, too. It has no slipsheet ...
Fabelkunde voor Jonge Lieden, Tweede Deel
(Bij F.B. Hollingerus Pijpers., 1826)
Purchasing this book was a mistake. It is not a fable book at all, but rather the second part of a two-part compendium of mythology. It comprises the seventh through twelfth conversations giving the stories behind major ...
Fables Nouvelles, Tome Second
(Peytieux Libraire, 1824)
This book remains something of an orphan in this collection. I presumed that I could find something on Rigaud in Shapiro's The Fabulists French, but he is alas not there. There is a section on him in Wikipedia. He lived ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(Nepveu, Libraire, & L. de Bure, Libraire, 1826)
Two volumes, separately paginated, in one. This copy either is Bassy 29b or is a two-volume printing of the same edition in the same year. Bassy's copy seems to have continuous page numbers. The discrepancy is apparent ...
Fables Nouvelles, Two Volumes
(Béchet Ainé et CieBéchet aîné et cie, 1826)
This expanded second edition of Jauffret's fables includes some 442 fables in fifteen books. An earlier edition of 1814 or 1815 was published by Maradan: Didot l'ainé and contained only ten books. Curiously, this edition ...
Select Fables: New Translations from Aesop
(Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, 1828)
This twelve-page chapbook cost more than I would like to pay, but it seems to be the real thing. In fact it seems to come from the very end of the chapbook-era. It is larger than I have conceived of chapbooks, since it ...
Aesop in Rhyme, with Some Originals With an engraving to each fable
(Printed for Baldwin and Cradock, 1821)
Bodemann #241.1 lists the first edition of this work in 1820. The frontispiece in both my 1823 and 1828 editions gives a date of 1821. Whereas the second edition in 1823 lists itself as The Second Edition, Corrected, ...
Select Fables with cuts, designed and engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, and others, previous to the year 1784: together with a Memoir; and a descriptive Catalogue of the works of Messrs. Bewick
(Baldwin Cradock, and Joy,Printed by S. Hodgson for Emerson Charnley et al, 1820)
One of the stars of my collection. See my comments on the 1975 facsimile. Excellent wood engravings here in a book I am thrilled to have found. After seeing reprints, it is so wonderful to see the original! Some pencil ...
Phaedri Augusti Liberti Fabulae Aesopiae
(A.J. Valpy, 1822)
This work is in amazingly good condition for its age! It was well preserved in the novitiate at Los Gatos and the teachers' library at Santa Clara! Volume I has an unusual T of C at its beginning and then a fairly ...