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Lot 368
Sale 437 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 5, 2016
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(AESOP) L'ESTRANGE, ROGER, SIR
Fables of Aesop and other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections. London: Printed for R. Sare, T. Sawbridge, B. Took, M. Gillyflower, A.&J. Churchill, and J. Hindmarsh, 1692.Folio, full mottled calf, rebacked, gilt-lettered red leather label to spine. Complete with engraved portrait frontispiece, plate and alphabetical table of fables. Gloddaeth Library bookplate on the front pastedown, and the name "Essex Finch" (d. 1721) written on the front endpaper. Wear to boards with some loss and leather starting to flake; light dampstain at top corner of most leaves in the first half; minor intermittent foxing.



