1731 Fables of Aesop and Others

Description

Early Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Rebound, Signed Binding, With Slipcase

The very scarce third edition of this work, which was first published in 1722. All early Croxall editions are very scarce.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, and with vignette woodcuts throughout.

Samuel Croxall was an Anglican churchman, writer and translator, particularly noted for this translation of Aesop's Fables in 1722.

ESTC T8470

Endpapers renewed.

The leaves of this volume have been washed.

Aesop's Fables are a collection of brief moral tales attributed to a storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece around the 6th century BCE. These tales typically feature animals as characters who embody human traits and behaviours, teaching practical life lessons through their interactions.

Classic fables like "The Tortoise and the Hare," "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," and "The Ant and the Grasshopper" use simple narratives to convey enduring wisdom about virtues such as perseverance, honesty, and hard work. 

Bound by Eric Sweet in half morocco, with paper covered boards. With a corresponding cloth clamshell box identifying this as bound by Sweet in 2004. 

Eric Sweet was a keen collector of private press and fables. He studied at the Brighton College of Art, before moving to London to work as a lettering artist and typographer for advertising agencies, later becoming the head of Birmingham School of Printing. Sweet's bindings are unique and striking, reflecting the topics of the volumes in distinctive style.