THOMAS BEWICK & THE FABLES OF AESOP. With an original leaf from the first edition (1818) of "The Fables of Aesop" and a new impression from one of Bewick" original wood engravings.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto, original brown boards with paper spine label; 58 pp., illustrated. Like new. Item #22072
The original leaf is page 147/148 and contains Bewick's wood engraving and the full text of the fable "The Frog and the Fox." The restrike impression is from Bewick's engraving for "The Boys and the Frogs." Edition of 518 copies printed at the Greenwood Press.
Price: $65.00
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