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NEAR-MINIATURE EDITION NOT IN ESTC AESOP. An Intire New and Beautiful Edition of Aesop's Fables, with Instructive Morals adapted to the Capacities of Children. 53 half-page woodcut illustrations. [8], ii-xii, [1], 44; 64 pages, including woodcut frontispiece (A-D in 8s; ²A-²D in 8s). 2 volumes in one. 16mo, 97x59 mm, early 19th-century black calf, gilt-tooled spine with red morocco lettering piece; frontispiece mounted, slight gnawing along fore edge of opening leaves without text loss, lower outer corner of last 4 leaves restored affecting a few letters. Contemporary child's crude ownership inscription ("Thomas Marriot his Book") on blank final preliminary page. London: R. Baldwin, 1757
