Aesop
Fables, of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists
£504
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
With Morals and Reflections. By Sir Roger L'Estrange. The Fourth Edition Corrected and Amended. London: for R. Sare [and others], 1704. [Bound with:] Fables and Storyes moralized. Being a Second Part of the Fables of Aesop. London: for R. Sare, 1699. 2 parts in 1 volume, folio (31.2 x 19.5cm), contemporary panelled calf, [10] 28 [8] 476, [16] 238 [2], engraved portrait frontispiece after Kneller, engraved additional title-page, advertisement leaf to rear, front joint split at foot, frontispiece shaved along fore edge, first part with marginal damp-staining to quires 2A-2D, second part browned [ESTC N8014 & R202378, 8 copies in UK libraries for the first part]
Footnote
Provenance: Sir William Gordon of Invergordon, Baronet (d.1742), Scottish politician and landowner (bookplate to verso of title-page).