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AESOP'S FABLES Illustrated by Ernest Griset. With text based chiefly upon Croxall, La Fontaine, and L'Estrange. Revised and re-written by J. B. Rundell. Second edition.
London. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin. No date [circa 1873]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 244 [4 catalogue] pages. Illustrated in black & white. Original brown pictorial cloth. Gilt. 4to. Front and rear inner joints lightly cracked; head & heel of spine a little worn; but a very good, clean copy.
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AESOPI PHRYGIS fabulae elegantissimis iconibus veras animalium species ad viuum adumbrantes…
Lyons: Jean de Tournes, 1594. Editio postrema, caeteris omnibus castigatior. [1-2], 3 –410, [6]pp. 61 woodcuts in text. Parallel Greek and Latin texts. 18th century calf gilt, expertly re-backed. Some water-staining; else a very good copy. First published by Jean de Tournes in 1570.
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BURMESE FOLK-TALES.
London.Geoffrey Cumberlege. 1948. xxxii, 246pp. Original pictorial boards, with cloth spine, red text. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on front free endpaper; 'To Mr. W. H. de Roose, With best wishes from "The Fourth Brother". Htin Aung 6th October 1948.' Some tearing to the wrapper's extremities, including light chipping at the head & heel and a piece missing from the middle of the spine; else a very good copy of a scarce title.
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FAIRY LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE SOUTH OF IRELAND. Part III.
London: John Murray, 1828. xxxii, 300 pages. Etchings and wood-engravings by W. H. Brooke. Contemporary half calf, gilt over marbled boards. Octavo. First edition. Binding heavily rubbed and spine and cracked at the upper joint, though firm; some occasional light off-setting from the plates; else a very good copy.
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KRILOF AND HIS FABLES.
London: Strahan and Co. Publishers, 1869. [i-vii] viii - xlii 1-180pp plus 32pp adverts to rear. Black & white illustrations throughout text. Green pictorial cloth, gilt. Octavo. First Edition. Front hinge cracked, Cloth has slight rubbing to extremities. Else a very good copy.
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LIONS AND LOBSTERS AND FOXES AND FROGS. Fables from Aesop. Drawings by Edward Gorey.
Reading, Mass. Young Scott Books, 1971. Hardcover. [44 pages]. Colour illustrations throughout. Amber pictorial boards with original dust-wrapper. Oblong. Measures approximately 21 x 23cm. First edition. A fine copy.
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PHÆDRI, Augusti Cæsaris Liberti, FABULARUM AESOPIARUM libri quinque; Notis perpetuis illustrate, & cum integris Aliorum observationibus in lucem editi a Johanne Laurentio Jcto.
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PUBLII TERENTII AFRI COMOEDIAE, PHAEDRI FABULAE AESOPIAE, PUBLII SYRI ET ALIORUM VETERUM SENTENTIAE.
Cantabrigiae. Londini.Cornelium Crownfield. Jacobum Knapton. Robertum Knaplock. Paulum Vaillant Bibliopolas. 1726. 2 volumes bound as one. Volume I: [8], xxv, [1], 2-444. Volume II: [iv], [1], 2-87pp. 2 black & white engraved plates. Contemporary full decorative calf gilt. Quarto. First edition. Spine rubbed and worn with some loss to head and heel; hinges badly cracked but boards are still attached; corners worn; occasional patches of browning to margins; ownership stamp to front pastedown endpaper and ownership name to front free endpaper; else a very good copy worthy of repair.
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RUSSIAN FOLK-TALES (translated from the Russian) with introduction and notes.
London.Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co., Ltd. 1915. [iv], xv, [1] 2-350pp. Original decorative cloth. Octavo. First edition. Some light rubbing to boards and spine edges; some light wear to head and heel of spine; else a very good copy.
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SERBIAN FOLK-LORE. Translated from the Serbian by Madame Elodie L. Mijatovich. Second edition.
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THE LITTLE GOOD PEOPLE. Folk Tales of Ireland. With illustrations by Peter Fraser.
London. Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, 1949. 164 pages. Illustrated with six full-page colour plates and many black & white line drawings within the text. Hardback in green pictorial cloth. Unclipped pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A fine copy, without inscriptions, in a very good dust-wrapper.
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THE MIMIAMBS OF HERONDAS. Translated by Jack Lindsay, Decorated by Alan Odle, with a Foreword by Brian Penton.
London: Fanfrolico Press, No Date [1925]. Not paged, but 36 leaves. Black & white illustrations and decorations throughout by Alan Odle. Original cloth-backed decorative brown and green floral boards. Edges untrimmed. Grey/black Slipcase. Limited Edition of 375. Some light browning to endpapers and edges. Slipcase distressed, split in two, and with some loss. A handsome copy, but for the slipcase.
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THE TOOTI NAMEH, or Tales of a Parrot: in the Persian language, with an English translation.
London: J. Debrett, 1801. (viii), (324) + 2pp ad's. Persian and English parallel text throughout except in prelim's. Original marbled boards expertly re-backed and re-cornered in calf gilt. Octavo. First English edition. Original endpapers repaired at joints when re-backed; some rubbing and wear to edge of marbled paper; Two small blank corners torn away from upper, outer margins; the occasional finger-mark and some browning here & there. A very good copy.Originally printed in Calcutta. This is a translation by Francis Gladwin of a seventeenth century abridgement by Muhammed Khudavand of Nakhshabi's collection of folk tales.
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TUSCAN FOLK-LORE AND SKETCHES Together with some other papers. Edited with a biographical note, by her brothers H, Orsmond Anderton and Basil Anderton.
London: Arnold Fairbairns, 1905. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 271 pages. Frontispiece. Original pictorial cloth. 8vo. First edition. Binding soiled on the rear board; spine dulled; light spotting to endpapers; a very good working copy.
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