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The fables of Aesop and others, translated into human nature

Title
The fables of Aesop and others, translated into human nature / designed and drawn on the wood by Charles H. Bennett ; engraved by Swain.
Publication
London : W. Kent & Co., [1857]

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Additional Authors
  • Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1867
  • Swain, Joseph, 1820-1909
  • W. Kent and Co., publisher
  • Children's Room Collection.
Description
[3], 22 leaves, [23] leaves of plates : col. ill.; 29 cm.
Subject
  • Fables
  • Smoking in art
  • Drawing > Original drawings > Bennett
Genre/Form
Juvenile literature – England – London – 1857.
Note
  • "The ass in a lion's skin" (plate facing p. 3) smokes a cigar.
  • Engraved t.p.
  • Illustrations: t.p. vignette and 23 full-page hand-colored wood engravings. Issued also with uncolored ill.
  • Binding, publisher's, of tan paper boards, with 2 hand-col. ill. repeated on front and back covers.
Indexed In (note)
  • Ray, G.N. Illustrator and the book in England
  • Pierpont Morgan Library. Early children's books
Provenance (note)
  • Copy in Arents: Justin G. Schiller (bookplate).
  • Copy in *KH 1857 Bennett 13-981, inscribed: in black and red ink, on upper free end leaf, "Maria, From her Father 1863" and bookseller stamp "R.H. Richards bookseller & stationer La Grange Geo." .
Binding (note)
  • Copy in *KH 1857 Bennett 13-981 rebound in quarterbrown leather with marbled paper boards. Housed in blue cloth box.
Call Number
Arents SA 1173a (Bennett)
OCLC
  • 816089
  • NYPG86-B45276
Title
The fables of Aesop and others, translated into human nature / designed and drawn on the wood by Charles H. Bennett ; engraved by Swain.
Imprint
London : W. Kent & Co., [1857]
Indexed In:
Ray, G.N. Illustrator and the book in England, 205
Pierpont Morgan Library. Early children's books, 17
Local Note
Original drawing for "The daw in borrowed plumes" (1 art original : pencil on paper ; 21 x 17 cm.) laid in.
Provenance
Copy in Arents: Justin G. Schiller (bookplate).
Copy in *KH 1857 Bennett 13-981, inscribed: in black and red ink, on upper free end leaf, "Maria, From her Father 1863" and bookseller stamp "R.H. Richards bookseller & stationer La Grange Geo." .
Binding
Copy in *KH 1857 Bennett 13-981 rebound in quarterbrown leather with marbled paper boards. Housed in blue cloth box.
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Added Author
Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1867, illustrator.
Swain, Joseph, 1820-1909, engraver.
W. Kent and Co., publisher
Research Call Number
Arents SA 1173a (Bennett)
*KH 1857 Bennett 13-981
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