AESOP. Fables of Aesop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflexions, edited by Sir Roger L'Estrange, London: for R. Sare, T. Sawbridge, B. Took, M. Gillyflower, A. & J. Churchill, and J. Hindmarsh, 1692.

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AESOP. Fables of Aesop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflexions, edited by Sir Roger L'Estrange, London: for R. Sare, T. Sawbridge, B. Took, M. Gillyflower, A. & J. Churchill, and J. Hindmarsh, 1692.

2°, engraved portrait frontispiece of Roger L'Estrange after Godfrey Kneller, one engraved plate (a few leaves stained or soiled, a few laminated repairs to margins, occasional light spotting), contemporary panelled calf (rebacked and recornered). FIRST EDITION OF L'ESTRANGE'S TRANSLATION. Wing A706.

With Dryden's Poems on various Occasions (London, 1701), a later edition of Dryden's translation of Aesop's Fables with engravings after Lady Diana Beauclerc (London, 1797), and Abraham Cowley's Works (London, 1688), all in folio. (4)

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