Aesop's Fables: A New Edition with Proverbs and Applications
by Aesop
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Nearly fine copy in the original gilt-decorated cloth
- Seller
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Pittsford, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Frederick A. Stokes. Nearly fine copy in the original gilt-decorated cloth. 1920. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 236 pp., Bound in red cloth stamped in gold; top edge gilt. With wood-engraved illustrations apparently from older editions. No date but circa 1920. Nice clean and tight copy. .
Synopsis
Aesop, known only for the genre of fables ascribed to him, was a slave in the mid-sixth century BC in Greece. He is assumed to have written many of these curious moral parables, and they have been added to and translated into many languages since they were first collected.
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- Bookseller
- Abacus Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS065531I
- Title
- Aesop's Fables: A New Edition with Proverbs and Applications
- Author
- Aesop
- Illustrator
- Profusely illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Nearly fine copy in the original gilt-decorated cloth
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books;
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