Aesop

i) Select fables of Esop and other fabulists. Birmingham: John Baskerville for R. and J. Dodsley, 1764, 8vo (183 x 113mm.), frontispiece and 15 plates, fly-titles, illustrations, full tree calf ruled in gilt, spine gilt, marbled endpapers [ESTC T84993]; ii) The fables of Aesop. London: John Stockdale, 1793, 2 volumes, large 8vo (269 x 158mm.), engraved titles and 110 engraved plates, full calf ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers, marbled edges; iii) Bewick, Thomas. The fables of Aesop, and others. Newcastle: E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son., 1818, royal 8vo in fours (226 x 140mm.), one of 500 copies, with facsimile "thumb-mark" receipt inserted after title, partially completed and signed by Thomas Bewick, illustrations throughout by Bewick, full red morocco, spine gilt in comparments, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt; iv) Bewick, Thomas and John. Select Fables. Newcastle: S Hodgson for Emerson Charnley, Baldwin, Cardock and Joy, 1820, 8vo in fours (237 x 140mm.), portrait frontispiece, bound uniformly with the above in red morocco gilt; all 8vo, some spotting and browning, occasional rubbing to boards (5)

William O'Brien, bequest booklabel dated 1899; library stamps

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