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BENNETT, Charles H (1829-1867). The Fables of Aesop and others translated into human nature. London: W. Kent & Co., [1857].
4o (255 x 204 mm). Printed on rectos only. Colored wood-engraved frontispiece, title, and 22 colored wood-engraved plates after Bennett by Swain. (Some light mostly marginal staining.) Contemporary calf gilt by Riviere, the original pictorial covers bound in as doublures, (rebacked old spine laid down). Provenance: acquired from Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1978.
FIRST EDITION. "Bennett translated Aesop's fables quite specifically into human nature as it displayed itself in the contemporary London world. His beasts represent with verve and malice many of the types one finds in mid-Victorian fiction, among them the callous footman, the idle officer, the exposed swindler, the ignorant patron of the arts, and the foolish social climber" (Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790-1914, 205.
4o (255 x 204 mm). Printed on rectos only. Colored wood-engraved frontispiece, title, and 22 colored wood-engraved plates after Bennett by Swain. (Some light mostly marginal staining.) Contemporary calf gilt by Riviere, the original pictorial covers bound in as doublures, (rebacked old spine laid down). Provenance: acquired from Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1978.
FIRST EDITION. "Bennett translated Aesop's fables quite specifically into human nature as it displayed itself in the contemporary London world. His beasts represent with verve and malice many of the types one finds in mid-Victorian fiction, among them the callous footman, the idle officer, the exposed swindler, the ignorant patron of the arts, and the foolish social climber" (Ray, The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790-1914, 205.