(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT) Robert Dodsley editor Select Fables

Sale 2615 - Lot 140

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(EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Robert Dodsley, editor. Select Fables of Aesop and other Fabulists. 15 [of 16] plates by Norman. 366 [of 371] pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, worn, boards detached; contents worn, lacking half-title, frontispiece plate, free endpapers, leaf Kk2 and 3 final leaves, first 3 leaves detached and quite worn, several plates crudely colored; numerous early inscriptions including owners' signatures on pastedowns and elsewhere. Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1777

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One of 3 printings of Aesop's Fable in Philadelphia in 1777 (priority undetermined). This edition has a long introductory "Essay on Fable," and concludes with an extended "New Life of Aesop" and "Six Oriental Stories, Entertaining and Instructive." No other examples of any of these Aesop editions traced at auction since 1914. Evans 15232; Welch 19.1.