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HOWITT, Samuel (1765-1822). A New Work of Animals: principally designed from the Fables of Aesop, Gay, and Phaedrus, London: Edward Orme, 1811.
4° (287 x 225mm). 100 etched plates. (Occasional light spotting, a few plates more heavily spotted mainly at margins, some plates offset onto text). Burgundy straight-grained morocco gilt by Thomas Gosden, the covers blind-tooled and gilt with a floral border enclosing a large diamond pattern similarly tooled and gilt with a central stamped motif of a stag within a garland, the spine elborately gilt in compartments with repeated dog motif (extremities lightly rubbed), g.e. Provenance: Sir James Buller East (armorial bookplate).
4° (287 x 225mm). 100 etched plates. (Occasional light spotting, a few plates more heavily spotted mainly at margins, some plates offset onto text). Burgundy straight-grained morocco gilt by Thomas Gosden, the covers blind-tooled and gilt with a floral border enclosing a large diamond pattern similarly tooled and gilt with a central stamped motif of a stag within a garland, the spine elborately gilt in compartments with repeated dog motif (extremities lightly rubbed), g.e. Provenance: Sir James Buller East (armorial bookplate).
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