Aesop. Fables, of Aesop and other Eminent Mythologists, edited by Sir Roger L'Estrange, first L'Estrange edition, engraved portrait of L'Estrange by R. White after Geoffrey Kneller (slightly trimmed, ?supplied from another copy), engraved plate of Aesop surrounded by animals, a couple of contemporary ink marginalia, some light browning and marginal water-staining, spotting to first leaf of Life, tear to inner margin of b4, 2G2 & 3 lacking upper outer corner affecting pagination, one or two other minor marginal tears or defects, modern panelled calf, very slightly rubbed, spine a little faded, preserved in modern cloth slip-case, [Wing A706], folio, for R.Sare, T.Sawbridge, B.Took, M.Gillyflower, A. & J.Churchil, and J.Hindmarsh, 1692.
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