Aesop. The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse...by John Ogilby, engraved portrait of Ogilby by Lombart after Peter Lely, title in red & black, engraved frontispiece of Aesop with animals and 81 plates by Wenceslaus Hollar and Roderigo Stoop (plates 14/15 combined and one unnumbered), engraved head-piece & initial, lacking C1 & 2, a little soiled, light water-staining at beginning, a few other stains, plate 11 frayed at edges and becoming loose, T4 torn and with old repairs, some other marginal tears and defects repaired, old signature of Sarah Phelps to front pastedown and inscription "Ed. Spencer 1740" to front free endpaper, Graham Pollard's copy with his book-label, contemporary panelled calf, rubbed and scuffed, corners worn, rebacked, red morocco label, preserved in modern cloth folder and slip-case, [Wing A693], folio, Thomas Roycroft, for the Author, 1665.
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