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AESOP. The Fables... Paraphras'd in Verse, and adorn'd with Sculpture by John Ogilby. London: Thomas Warren for Andrew Crook, 1651.
4o (218 x 160 mm). Engraved additional title with portrait, engraved frontispiece and 80 engraved plates by Hollar, Stoop and Barlow after Francis Cleyn. (Minor marginal browning and soiling.) Contemporary English blind-ruled calf (rebacked, preserving original spine, corners repaired); half morocco folding case. Provenance: William Wynne (contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf) -- William Wymor (ownership inscription dated 1701) -- William Vaughan (signature) -- Diana Edwards (ownership inscription dated 1831) -- Henry E. Huntington (duplicate stamp "H.E.H." on lower paste-down). Provenance: purchased from Dawsons, London, 23 August 1972.
FIRST EDITION of Ogilby's translation with outstanding illustrations of these 81 fables (numbered 1-13, 14/15 and 16-81). "To call these versions paraphrases is misleading... they are original treatments of familiar themes. Ogilby gives free play to his imagination as he retells the fables with so many amplifications of homely detail and classical allusions that what would ordinarily have been eighty-one pages or a little more becomes two hundred and thirty-six." (E. Hodnett Francis Barlow First Master of English Book Illustration p. 79). Wing A-689.
4o (218 x 160 mm). Engraved additional title with portrait, engraved frontispiece and 80 engraved plates by Hollar, Stoop and Barlow after Francis Cleyn. (Minor marginal browning and soiling.) Contemporary English blind-ruled calf (rebacked, preserving original spine, corners repaired); half morocco folding case. Provenance: William Wynne (contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf) -- William Wymor (ownership inscription dated 1701) -- William Vaughan (signature) -- Diana Edwards (ownership inscription dated 1831) -- Henry E. Huntington (duplicate stamp "H.E.H." on lower paste-down). Provenance: purchased from Dawsons, London, 23 August 1972.
FIRST EDITION of Ogilby's translation with outstanding illustrations of these 81 fables (numbered 1-13, 14/15 and 16-81). "To call these versions paraphrases is misleading... they are original treatments of familiar themes. Ogilby gives free play to his imagination as he retells the fables with so many amplifications of homely detail and classical allusions that what would ordinarily have been eighty-one pages or a little more becomes two hundred and thirty-six." (E. Hodnett Francis Barlow First Master of English Book Illustration p. 79). Wing A-689.