Dryden (John): The Fables, folio, By T. Bensley, 1797, nine engraved plates, eleven vignettes after Diana Beauclerc (occasional light offsetting onto text), contemporary straight-grained red morocco in the style of Bartholomew Frye, ruled and tooled in gilt, outer black morocco onlay border with gilt 'Greek Key' roll, inner green morocco onlay border with gilt metope and pentaglyph roll, six section spine, gilt, with green and black morocco onlays (somewhat rubbed), g.e.; and two others. (3)

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Dryden (John): The Fables, folio, By T. Bensley, 1797, nine engraved plates, eleven vignettes after Diana Beauclerc (occasional light offsetting onto text), contemporary straight-grained red morocco in the style of Bartholomew Frye, ruled and tooled in gilt, outer black morocco onlay border with gilt 'Greek Key' roll, inner green morocco onlay border with gilt metope and pentaglyph roll, six section spine, gilt, with green and black morocco onlays (somewhat rubbed), g.e.; and two others. (3)

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