Samuel Howitt | A new work of animals, London, 1811, contemporary red morocco gilt by Thomas Gosden

Samuel Howitt

A new work of animals: principally designed from the fables of Aesop, Gay, and Phaedrus. London: Edward Orme, 1811

4to (286 x 216mm.), 100 uncoloured plates, contemporary straight-grained red morocco gilt by Thomas Gosden, spine with raised bands in six compartments, decorated in gilt and blind with repeated animal motif of sheep, covers with roll-tooled decoration in gilt and blind, gilt stamp of a stag trippant on covers, gilt edges, brown endpapers, some light spotting, extremities slightly rubbed

Bound by Thomas Gosden (1780-1840), an English bookbinder, collector, bookseller, publisher, and sportsman.