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AESOP (c.620-560 B.C.) & Charles H. BENNETT (illustrator). The Fables ... translated into Human Nature, London: Chatto and Windus, 1875. 4° (249 x 176mm). Hand-coloured wood-engraved frontispiece, title and 22 plates by Swain after Charles Bennett. (Corner torn away from front endpaper, pencil inscription crossed through, a few light spots, hinges a little weak.) Original pictorial cloth gilt (joints splitting, extremities rubbed).
Ernest Griset's Funny Picture-Book, London: William P. Nimmo, [c.1874]. 4° (276 x 215mm). Hand-coloured illustrations by Ernest Griset. (A few very short marginal tears.) Original pictorial cloth gilt (spine ends chipped, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Maud Stevenson (presentation inscription).
With Aesop's Fables (London, [c.1880], 2nd edition, illustrated by Ernest Griset) and Sydney Grey's Story-Land (London, [c.1884], illustrated by Robert Barnes). (4)
Ernest Griset's Funny Picture-Book, London: William P. Nimmo, [c.1874]. 4° (276 x 215mm). Hand-coloured illustrations by Ernest Griset. (A few very short marginal tears.) Original pictorial cloth gilt (spine ends chipped, extremities rubbed). Provenance: Maud Stevenson (presentation inscription).
With Aesop's Fables (London, [c.1880], 2nd edition, illustrated by Ernest Griset) and Sydney Grey's Story-Land (London, [c.1884], illustrated by Robert Barnes). (4)
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