Sentimental fables designed chiefly use (1 resultados)

Leather. 1st London edition. 1st London ed., octavo, pp.xii, 312, b&w wood-cut head-piece vignettes to each fable, title-page in red and black with early repairs to page and inner margin not affecting text, small holes to preface, light creasing to some upper cnrs. Beautifully rebound in gilt tooled quarter leather, marbled bds. Very good condn. A popular book of Fables by the English Physician, Thomas Marryat, republished from an Irish edition printed in Belfast a year before (1771) this edition. The first fable, "The Eagle and the other Birds" dedicated to his Royal Highness George, Prince of Wales.…