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Fables of Aesop and Others  1809 Small, Part-Leather. Fables of Aesop and Others Translated Into English with Instructive Applications and a Print Before Each Fable. Published by Printed for J. Johnson, R.Baldwin, F.C. And J.Rivington et al (Printer = Swan and Son), London, 1809. Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable-. 18th Edn. Part leather with marbled board.. Both boards are cracked but attached. Corners knocked, edges scraped. front endpaper missing. Frontispiece cut horizontally and removed.. Remains of Black/white frontispiece and further engraved  illustrations. 330pp plus index.  Contents include; The bear and the bee hives, the wanton calf, the fox and the tiger, the proud frog, the eagle and the crow, the dog in the manger, the two crabs, the ape and the fox, the sensible ass etc, etc. Light thumbing/foxing spots but overall internally clean and bright.

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Fables of Aesop and Others Translated Into English with Instructive Applications and a Print Before Each Fable. Published by Printed for J. Johnson, R.Baldwin, F.C. And J.Rivington et al (Printer = Swan and Son), London, 1809. Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable-. 18th Edn. Part leather with marbled board.. Both boards arecracked but attached. Corners knocked, edges scraped. front endpaper missing. Frontispiece cut horizontally and removed.. Remains of Black/white frontispiece and further engraved illustrations. 330pp plus index. Contents include; The bear and the bee hives, the wanton calf, the fox and the tiger, the proud frog, the eagle and the crow, the dog in the manger, the two crabs, the ape and the fox, the sensible ass etc, etc. Light thumbing/foxing spots but overall internally clean and bright.