FABLES, IN VERSE
by ROWE, REV. HENRY
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Moderate General Cover Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: J.J. Stockdale, 1810. Spine designs in gilt. Internally quite clean. Widely margined. A totasl of 30 wood engravings including the frontispiece. Neat ink inscription at to of front free endpaper dated 1815. A collection of fables including such titles as "The Misanthrope and the Grasshopper", "The Farmer, The Owl, and the Rat". Each fable is prefaced by one of the wood engravings. Some controversy exists as to just who engraved them-some say it was Bewick.314pp + advert.. First Edition. Half Leather, Marbled Boards. Moderate General Cover Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010882
- Title
- FABLES, IN VERSE
- Author
- ROWE, REV. HENRY
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Moderate General Cover Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- J.J. Stockdale
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1810
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Woodcuts, Fables
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...