Fables.-

A collection of editions of Aesop’s fables including: Fables of Aesop and others…, second edition, woodcut frontispiece, woodcut intext illustrations, dustsoiling, contemporary calf, worn, boards detached, 8vo, J. Tonson & J. Watts, 1724; Baskerville Press.- Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists, second edition, engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title and 15 text illustrations, title browned and repaired, some spotting or foxing, armorial bookplate of Hugh Rose Young of Kilraick Esq. with motto ‘constant and true – audeo’ (possibly Hugh Rose, 16th Baron of Kilravock (1684-1755), member of Parliament and Chief of the ancient Scottish family, Clan Rose), contemporary calf, corners bumped, [Gaskell 27], 8vo, Baskerville Press, Birmingham, 1764; Select Fables of Esop and other Fabulists by Robert Dodsley, A new edition, woodcuts, lacking last leaf, contemporary calf, worn, hinges split and boards detached, 12mo, William Osborne & J & H Mozley, Gainsborough, London, [1800?]; The Fables of Aesop and others, first Bewick edition, wood engraved vignette and tail pieces by Thomas Bewick, without the signed thumb-mark receipt but with the suppressed "Auld Clouty" tail-piece to p.xvi, light browning, occasional spotting, faded signature above title, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rubbed, 4to, Newcastle, E. Walker, 1818; Aesop and others. Fables, translated with instructive Applications by Samuel Croxall, wood-engraved frontispiece by C. Nesbit and text vignettes, occasional staining, ownership signatures to front free endpaper, and title, contemporary tree calf, head spine repaired, 8vo, F. C & J. Rivington, 1818; Aesop's fables, for the improvement of Youth, 2 vol. in one, steel engraved frontispiece (browned and repaired) and full page illustrations, light browning, modern red quarter morocco, marbled boards, new endpapers, 12mo, Joseph Smith, [1830], Aesop’s fables, a new version, chiefly from original sources by Thomas James, First edition, pages ruled, steel engraved frontispiece and in text illustrations designed by John Tenniel, based on his sketches of animals in the London Zoo, publisher’s ad leaves at end, title foxed, inscription to title and armorial bookplate of Robert Bell, joints splitting, publisher's yellow cloth, gilt-lettered and with gilt design on front cover, soiled, spine ends rubbed and bumped, corners also bumped, 4to, John Murray, 1848 (7)