Bewick's Select Fables of Æsop and others. In Three Parts. I. Fables extracted from Dodsley's. II. Fables with Reflections in Prose and Verse. III. Fables in Verse. To which are prefixed the Life of Æsop, and an Essay upon Fable by Oliver Goldsmith. Faithfully Reprinted from the Rare Newcastle Edition published by T. Saint in 1784. With the Original Wood Engravings by... and an Illustrated Preface by Edwin Pearson.
London: Bickers & Son, 1886. Large paper copy, 4to, xl, 312 pp. Frontispiece and numerous wood engraved illustrations, small closed tear to the foot of the inner margin of the frontispiece, light foxing to the first few leaves. Modern gilt titled half morocco, a very good copy. Following Charnley's edition..... More
