Apr 12, 2010 - Sale 2210

Sale 2210 - Lot 125

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
COLE, BENJAMIN. Select Tales and Fables with Prudential Maxims and Other Little Lessons of Morality in Prose and Verse 30 etched plates by Cole after J. Wale, each with 2 subjects. [10], 80; [2], iv, 80 pages, including engraved general title and 2 volume titles. 2 volumes in one. 12mo, early 19th-century calf, spine darkened and brittle, front cover detached; contents toned with occasional soiling and stains, some offsetting from engraved matter, Volume 1 has repair on verso of general title and plate 25/26, and small strip torn from blank outer margin of plate 1/2. London: T. Osborn and J. Nourse, (1746)
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scarce first edition of an illustrated fable collection and guide to conduct for young people, including Nicholas Rowe's translation of the Golden Verses attributed to Pythagoras (see lot 233). No copy has ever been listed in American Book Prices Current.