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JACOBS,JOSEPH EDITS AND INTRODUCES FABLES OF AESOP as first printed by WILLIAM CAXTON in 1484 with those of Avian,Alfonso and Poggio. I HISTORY OF THE AESOPIC FABLE
Bibliotheque de carabas, Nutt 1st edition thus 1889 frontis from the Bayeux tapestry . LIMITED EDITION To 550 of which 500 for sale pictorial printe parchment covers (spine darkened and strengthened on inner face (not visible without removing casing) Limitation leaf +publisher's list leaf +xixp (which includes half title/frontis/blank/titlepage/dedication/poem signed A.L./preface +(1p=pedigree of Caxton's aesop +283p which includes appendix,synopsis of parallels and index. A companion volume of the Caxton text was also edited by Joseph Jacobs and published by Nutt but the two are usually catalogued separately as both are entirely complete in themselves. *Jacobs' History of the Aesopic Fable which includes the influences from India and Oriental fables and a long section on Aesop in England is a thorough study of the influences of earlier fables on Caxton's compilation. This copy is partly Uncut unopened.The titlepage has a small erasure to blank area and there is sl.edge browning not extending into the margin. An in depth study
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