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Fables, Original and Selected; by the most Esteemed European and Oriental Authors
by Bussey, G. Moir (Introductory dissertation and biographical notices by); J. J. Grandville (Illustrated by)
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Fair-Good
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About This Item
London: Willoughby and Co., 1842. First British edition. Hardcover. Fair-Good. Quarto. XXXIV, [2], 352pp. Contemporary 3/4 calf over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering and tooling on spine. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece. Illustrated head-, tail chapters, and initials. Delightful work being an homage to the Fable genre, with text from Aesop, La Fontaine, Nivernois, Lessing, Dodsley, Gay, Croxall, Yriarte, Goldsmith, Florian, Addison, Sir Roger L'Estrange, and others. The charm of the various fables is greatly heightened by the numerous in-text and full-page illustrations engraved from the designs of Grandville. Age wear on binding with spine and edges heavily rubbed, with abrasion to leather. Title, and presentation page creased at upper corner. Moderate age toning along paper margin. Binding in overall poor to fair, interior in good, plates in good+ to very good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36268
- Title
- Fables, Original and Selected; by the most Esteemed European and Oriental Authors
- Author
- Bussey, G. Moir (Introductory dissertation and biographical notices by); J. J. Grandville (Illustrated by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair-Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First British edition
- Publisher
- Willoughby and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1842
- Keywords
- First edition, Illustrated, Reference
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About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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