Author(s): Francis Barlow
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 342
Publisher: Eebo Editions, Proquest
Language: English
Date Published: 2010-12-13
Dimensions: 189 x 246 x 18mm
Publication City/Country: Charleston SC, United States
Edition:
Illustrations: Illustrations, black and white

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Aesopic's, or, A second collection of fables paraphras'd in verse, adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations / by John Ogilby, Esq., master of His Majesties revells in the kingdom of Ireland.
Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677.
Stoop, Dirck, ca. 1618-1686.
Plates engraved by Hollar, Dirck Stoop, and Barlow; those which illustrate the fables are numbered according to the fable numbers; 3 plates are repeated from The fables of Aesop, London, 1665, with the original numbers revised in ms.: 5 to 8, 4 to 32, and 80 to 36.
This item can also be found following "The fables of Aesop paraphras'd in verse" (Wing A693) at reel 754:23.
Pages 51-52 bound between pages 52-53.
[4], 211 p., [59] leaves of plates:
London: Printed by Thomas Roycroft for the author, 1668.
Wing / A698
English
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery

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