Aesop.- L'Estrange

Aesop.- L'Estrange

(Sir Roger) Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists, frontispiece portrait of L’Estrange by Roger White after Geoffrey Kneller, and a full-page engraving of Aesop surrounded by the animal subjects of his stories, both trimmed and laid down, errata leaf, occasional near-contemporary inscriptions: 'August ye 15: 1662, tis so long ago since this was wrote', repaired tears or strengthening to A1, A2, F3, F4, D4, further short tears, 2 holes to blank margin of Cc, staining and browning throughout, later brown Morocco, a little rubbed, early-20th century inscription to front free endpaper, [Wing A706], small folio, R.Sare, T.Sawbridge, B.Took, M.Gillyflower, folio, A. & F. Churchill & F. Hindmarsh, 1692.

***The scarce first edition of perhaps the most popular version of Aesop’ s fables yet printed.