[Aesop (ca 620-560 B.C.)]. L'estrange, Roger, Sir (1616-1704). Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists. London: for R. Sare, T. Sawbridge, B. Took, et al, 1692.
Folio (324 x 197 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved plate. Contemporary paneled calf, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, morocco lettering-piece gilt in second (joints touched up, foot and fore-corners worn). Provenance: J. Drake (early ownership signature on front free endpaper).
FIRST EDITION of Sir Roger L’Estrange’s celebrated translation of Aesop’s Fables, among the most influential English renditions of the classical corpus. Wing A706.
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