The Fables of Aesop by Aesop, Samuel Croxall - 1845

London:: William P. Nimmo,, 1875.. publisher's green cloth.. Light rubbing to cloth; tight and sound. . 16mo,. Frontispiece in color and two other plates. . Translated into English; with Instructive Applications.

London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1887. Cloth. Good. 7.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. A smart new edition of this translation of Aesop's fables with original illustrations throughout. New edition. With one hundred and ten original illustrations. A collection of work credited to Aesop, a Greek fabulist and storyteller recognised by his anthropomorphic animal characters and their moral commentary. Translated by Samuel Croxall, an Anglican churchman, writer and translator, noted for this translation, and Sir Roger L'Estrange, an English pamphleteer, author, courtier and press censor. With applications, morals, and more written by Reverend George Fyler Townsend, a British translator and cleric, and Laura Valentine, or Laura Belinda Charlotte Jewry, a Victorian English writer known for her children's literature. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine and the odd small mark to the boards. Minor loss… Read More

Published by Milner, 1837. Hardback. Fair/Poor. Fair condition with no wrapper. Instructive applications by Croxall. Small format. Brown cloth. Gilt title to spine. 296 pages. Illustrated with 100 b/w engravings. Pull-out b/w frontispiece. Covers are worn and grubby. Inscription in ink to front pastedown, further writing in ink to rear endpapers. Front free-endpaper is missing. Contents are foxed and very grubby.

London: Fredreick Warne and Co., 1887 by inscription. Hardcover. Good. Woodengraved illustrations (80) in text - these are not the Croxall illustrations, they are unsigned but in the style of Harrison Weir but NOT by him Weir although not by him.. Post octavo red pictorial cl oth (tips worn/vent to foot) viii + 152pp. Using the Croxall translation of Aesop the Rev. George Fyler Townsend added morals and applications thus The Fox & The Crow moral is Flattery Finds Favour and the Application Compliments cost nothing but many pay dear for them.

London: John Stockdale, 1793. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Lxv, [1], 189Pp; Xi, [1], 248Pp. 24.8 X16 Cm. Later 1793 Issue, Without Advertisement Leaf For Stockdale's "Gay's Fables" And With Corrected Page Number For P.198 Of The First Vol. Quarter Polished Calf, Rules, Bl;Ack Spine Labels, Marbled Boards. Bindings Probably Original, Well Worn, Spine Labels Intact, Fraying, Front Board Of Vol I Detached, Front Board Of Volume Ii Held Only By The Cords. Pages Generally Bright And Clean, But With Small Areas Of Foxing On Some Pages, And Faint Offsetting Of Plates (Tissue Guards Are Not Present). Ownership Signatures On Title Pages. Each Volume With Bookplates 12 1/2 Cm X 11 1/2 Cm Designed For The Artist William R. A Hays By Franz Von Bayros (1866 - 1924), An "Austrian Commercial Artist, Illustrator, And Painter, Best Known For His Controversial "Tales At The Dressing Table" Portfolio. He Belonged To The Decadent Movement In Art, Often Utilizing Erotic Themes And Phantasmagoric Imagery. Bayros Was… Read More

FIRST Stockdale edition, first issue with the long "s" throughout; 2 volumes, large 8vo (270 x 165mm). VERY SCARCE Large Paper Copy. 2 Engraved title-pages and 110 plates (All 112 plates are in fabulous, unmarked condition; there is no foxing and the volumes are internally clean). Some leaves are slightly browned. Leather boards are slightly worn and previous owner's bookplates are present. Both volumes are bound in early (perhaps original) full leather bindings with faded gold lettering and decoration on the spines, gold borders on the boards.Page 198 of Vol I is misprinted as 891; the text is by Samuel Croxall. A very good, collector's copy of the richly illustrated, first edition of the famous Stockdale's Aesop.