Three Hundred Aesop's Fables; Literally Translated from the Greek
by Aesop; George Fyler Townsend, translator
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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HARWICH PORT, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London: George Routledge and Sons Book. Illus. by Weir, Harrison. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. Reprint. 8vo.. Undated edition, 8vo. Blue cloth boards, decoratively blindstamped in gilt, yellow and black illustrating the dog and the shadow, which is also a color frontispiece. With 50 illustrations by Harrison Weir, including frontispiece in color, the rest black and white in-text. xxvii, 192 pp., including index. This translation taken from the following sources: Babrii Fabulae Aesopeae, George Cornwell Lewis, Oxford, 1846; Babrii Fabulae Aesopeae. E codice manuscripto partem secundam edidit, George Cornwell Lewis, London: Parker, 1857; Mythologica Aesopica. Opera et studia, Isaaci Nicholal Neveleti, Frankfort: 1610; Fabulae Aesopiacae, quales ante. Planudem ferebantur cura et studio, Francisci de Furia, Lipsize: 1810; Ex recognititione, Caroli Halmii, Lipsiae: 1851; Phaedri Fabulae Esopiae. Delphin Classics, 1822. Light wear top and bottom of spine, corners bumped. Very good condition..
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- Respectful Exits (US)
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- 014969
- Title
- Three Hundred Aesop's Fables; Literally Translated from the Greek
- Author
- Aesop; George Fyler Townsend, translator
- Illustrator
- Weir, Harrison
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- George Routledge and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- 8vo.
- Keywords
- AESOP'S FABLES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare Children's Books;
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