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Estimate: $ 700 - $ 900
Aesop (c. 620-564 BCE) Fables with his Life in English, French & Latin.
London: Printed by H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow to be sold by Chr. Wilkinson, Tho. Fox, & Henry Faithorne, 1687.
Folio, lacking engraved title and portrait of Aesop, with engraved arms of dedicatee (torn with loss and crudely mounted with margins extended), Life of Aesop illustrated with thirty-one full page engraved plates, most signed in the plate by Thomas Dudley; text illustrated with 109 half-page etchings by Francis Barlow with captions by Aphra Ben; typographical title trimmed to ruled borders with old repairs and losses to surface, other tears and stains; almost every page with tears, stains, and paper repairs, bound in 20th century leatherette, a good candidate for restoration, 11 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.
