AESOP 1708 Fables Fifth Edition With hundreds of early

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"ILLUMINATED" COPY AESOP. Fables, of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflexions. By Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt. The Fifth Edition Corrected. [16], 29, [11], 550, [1] pages, including engraved portraits of L'Estrange and Aesop, and ad leaves C4 and 2N4. 8vo, contemporary panelled calf, binding cocked, spine worn, chipped at top, front joint cracked, cords intact; early 18th-century signatures and scrawls on front free endpaper and back of frontispiece portrait, scattered stains. Carroll Alton Means bookplate. London: R. Sare et al., 1708

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unique copy, with hundreds of early and charmingly primitive marginal illustrations