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New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1869. Hardcover. Good. 5 x 7 in. Green cloth boards with gilt animals. B&W text plates. Condition is GOOD ; rear cover has a strip of the cloth gone at top, abount 1" wide, that extends partly over the spine head. Front hinge is a little tender but holding fine. Corners bumped. Text clean, bright and unmarked. Fic. Stax.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: R.F.Fenno & Company A Solid Book, No Signatures Or Inscriptions. Light Cracking In Gutters Front And Rear Eps But Boards Still Solidly Attached.A Small Stain On Ffep Edge Which Bled Very Slightly Onto The Following Few Pages ( Getting Less As It Progresses) But It Has Not Bled Onto The Main Text. No Date, However The Blue Cloth Boards Design Is C1900s The Boards Are Gently Frayed At The Spine Edges And The Corners Very Slightly Bumped. Shelf And Reading Wear To Boards But Still In Good Condition.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

New York and Boston: Hurd And Houghton / E. P. Dutton, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Henry Walker Herrick. 12mo, xii, 311 pages, red bevelled publisher's cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, original floral endpapers, all edges gilt. Variant with gilt fox in a circle on covers. This is Samuel Croxall text, unattributed, with a lengthy "Application" at the end of each of the 110 fables here. For example, "The Hunted Beaver" draws comparisons to the Inquisition, and persecution of the Jews - with advice I do not comprehend. Illustrated by watercolorist Henry Walker Herrick

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: printed at The Riverside Press for Hurd and Houghton, 1865. 130 engravings based on designs by Herrick. 8vo., original brown cloth decorated in gilt. Top of spine rather worn and front hinge split.|||

Hurd, 1865 New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1865. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Illustrated with 111 engravings from original designs by Herrick . First edition thus. 12mo. green and gilt boards with period yellow end papers, 311 pp. All edges gilt, very ornate binding with animals and decorations all in blind-stamped gilt, very attractive and conditionally near fine. Date on title page matches date of copyright, true first printing thus.

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… Read More

London:: Printed for John Stockdale,, 4th June 1793.. old speckled calf, neatly rebacked retaining the original spines and gilt-lettered spine labels.. Ink ownership signature on blank leaf in Vol. I and at the head of the title page of Vol. II; text age-toned throughout with some scattered light foxing.. 8vo,. 110 Fables, each with an engraved illustration, plus two engraved title pages with vignettes.. Brunet I, 103.

London:: Printed for John Stockdale,, 4th June 1793.. old diced calf with extra gilt spines, expertly rebacked retaining the original spines but with all four gilt-lettered spine labels absent; all edges gilt. . The line containing the date of publication is trimmed in Vol. I but not Vol. II. A few minor smudges to text; light scuffing to leather; both volumes tight and sound.. 8vo,. 110 Fables, each with an engraved illustration, plus two engraved title pages with vignettes.. Brunet I, 103.

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.

London: John Stockdale, 1793. Two volumes. 112 engraved plates with protective tissue by Thomas Stothard, J. Landseer, Hunt, Medland, Lovegrove, Skelton, Powell, Eastgate, W. Grainger, Clarke, L. Chapman, A. Smith, J. Saunders, Audinet et al. Pp. lxi, publisher’s ad. leaf, 198; xii, 248. Large 8vo., original cloth backed marbled paper covered board with printed paper spine labels. Some rubbing, light browning to end of volume II, and a bit shaken.||An excellent untrimmed copy pretty well preserved in the original binding of Stockdale’s well printed and deliciously illustrated Aesop. This is a true first of the great 1793 Stockdale edition with the advertisement leaf for Stockdale’s Gay’s Fables and the misprinted p.891 for p.198 of the first vol. The text is by Samuel Croxall. Booklabels of Carleton Richmond. | In the original publisher’s binding

Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly,. 2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, LARGE PAPER, with engraved title-vignettes and 110 fine full-page engraved plates; handsomely bound in contemporary full brown diced calf, boards with triple frame border enclosing decorative frame all in gilt, backs with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and numbered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt with a geometrical floral flourish, marbled edges, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrips laid down, a splendid, crisp and remarkably clean copy in sympathetically restored period binding. WITH THE FINE ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF RAWSON BODDAM CROZIER [1775-1849] ON FRONT PASTE-DOWNS. FIRST EDITION OF THIS SELECTION. Large Paper copies are invariably [as here] the first issue with uncorrected page numeral [891] on p.198, and issued without Stockdale's later advertisement leaf for his edition of Gay's Fables. This… Read More

London: John Stockdale, 1793. First Edition. Fine. 2 vol., Large 8vo, 11 x 7 in. (278 x 178 mm); pp. lxv, 189 (misnumbered 891); advertisement, xi, 248; engraved vignettes on title page of each vol. and 110 other plates, one for each fable, by various engravers including Skelton and Barrett, J Chapman, Clarke, J. Smith, some unsigned. Vol. 2 contains the advertisement for the publication of The Fables by John Gay by the same publisher and the same year. Offset to some pages from engraved plates (tissue guards not present) and very occasional foxing. Handsome later binding in green crushed morocco by F. Bedford (gilt stamped on turn-in of Vol. 1) with gilt fillets on boards, decorative motifs on turn-ins, marbled endpapers, 5 raised bands, spines elaborately gilt and tooled, gilt title, t.e.g., rest uncut. [Brunet I, 103; Lowndes, I, p. 17; ESTC T84992; Bentley, Blake Books, 460]. A beautiful edition with all 110 engravings by over 30 engravers and two vignette title pages. In his comprehensive… Read More