One Hundred Fables - Original and Selected (Third Edition) by James Northcote by James Northcote

Paperback / softback. New.

BiblioLife, 2009-03-19. Paperback. Used:Good.

BiblioLife, 2009-03-19. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Hardback. New.

Wentworth Press. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Wentworth Press. hardcover. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

One Hundred Fables (Vol. 1) has marbled boards and endpapers. Very faint owners name (Joseph John Yates ?) above title. 280 engravings on wood. Some scuffs to book and spine edges. Raised ribs on spine. Original red silk bookmark. Hinge is in tact. Index to engravings in rear of book. Two pages of publisher ads after index. Dedication page to his His Royal Majesty. Pages are bright and clean. Fables: Original and Selected (Vol. 2) has marbled boards and endpapers.
Some scuffs to book and spine edges. Raised ribs on spine. Original red silk bookmark. Front board hinge is loose but still in tact. Pages are bright and clean. 280 engravings on wood. Raised ribs on spine. Original red silk bookmark. Dedication page to The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, The Second Series of Fables.
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London: Geo. Lawford (and) John Murray, 1829, 1833. First volume is the second edition; second volume is the first edition. Light wear to joints; evidence of bookplate removal to front pastedown in both volumes, old embossed stamp to title pages. 2 volumes, contemporary half green morocco and marbled boards; octavos; viii, 272; liv, 241 pp. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece, 183 wood-engraved vignettes, and 100 wood engraved initials (first volume); 177 wood-engraved vignettes and 101 wood-engraved initials (second volume). James Northcote (1746-1831) was a prolific English painter and draftsman whose career was much advanced through his apprenticeship with Joshua Reynolds, for whom he worked for about 5 years, beginning in 1771. In his foreword to the first volume of Fables, Northcote states: "Although the original invention and designs for the prints at the head of each Fable are my own, yet they have been most excellently drawn on wood, and prepared for the Engravers, by Mr. William… Read More

LONDON, LAWFORD, 1833. THIRD EDITION, TWO VOLUMES. FINE BINDINGS BY A BINDER TO THE KING. FULL CRIMSON LEATHER, RICH GILT DECORATION TO THE SPINES AND BOARDS, A.E.G.WITH 280 FINE ENGRAVINGS, A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR, ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE. FRONTIS. OF NORTHCOTE TO VOLUME 1. FOXING TO THE FRONTIS. ONLY. CLEAN AND TIGHTLY BOUND. A VERY HANDSOME SET.