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London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1768. With seventeen full page engravings illustrating the fables, and an engraved frontispiece bound before the half-title and title leaves. Contemporary boards with a leather spine; outer joints weak; very good.

London; Edinburgh: Edward and Charles Dilly; A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1768. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 4.5". Not Stated. An illustrated first edition copy of William Wilkie's charming fables, a collection of sixteen fables with engravings. The first edition.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and seventeen plates.Half-title is present.ESTC citation number T138559.Collated, complete.A lovely collection of fables by William Wilkie.Written in iambic tetrameter, the sixteen poetical fables in this volume are reminiscent of John Gay. The sixteenth fable in this volume, 'The Hare and the Partan', is written in Scottish midlothian dialect. Fables include 'The Young Lady and the Looking-Glass', 'The Kite and the Rooks', 'The Muse and the Shepherd', and 'The Grasshopper and the Glowworm'. Including 'A Dialogue Between the Author and Friend' to the rear. Wilkie was a minister of the Scottish Church of Scotland, and a Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews. In a full… Read More

London: Edward and Charles Dilly, A. Kincaid and J. Bell, 1768. First Edition. First blank leaf pulled loose; offsetting from illustrations to facing pages; corners of s few pages show old folds, long since flattened out again; spine neatly reinforced with paper.. 8vo, [12], 140pp; engraved frontispiece, 17 additional full-page engravings; original (?) marbled boards; untrimmed, with half-title. An appealing copy of the Scottish cleric's book of fables, with its charming series of 18 illustrations drawn by S. Wale and engraved by T. Simpson.