(BARLOW, Francis); AESOP; BEHN, Aphra. 
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Æsop’s Fables with his Life: In English, French and Latin. Newly Translated. Illustrated with One Hundred and Twelve Sculptures. To this Edition are Likewise added, Thirty One New Figures Representing his Life. By Francis Barlow. London: Printed by H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow...1687.
FIRST EDITION THUS. Folio. (30 x 19 cm). Engraved title, title, engraved arms of the dedicatee (Earl of Devonshire), dedication, pp.40 (Life) plus 40 (Vie) + pp.17 (Vita) + pp.2-221+[2, Index]. Later, eighteenth century, calf, sides with blind-stamped roll-tooled border, spine matching with raised bands and gilt lettering, gilt decoration to board edges, brown endpapers, all edges gilt. Comnplete with engraved title, dedication plate, 31 full page illustrations of the Life and 110 half page illustrations of the Fables. Joints expertly repaired, plates to the the Life slightly foxed most noticeably to the versos, small hole to plate 25, otherwise contents fresh and clean. An attractive copy. Armorial bookplate of Joseph Tusker, Middleton hall, Essex. Second edition of Barlowe’s illustrations but expanded to include the life and its 31 plates. Frst thus. Many (most?) copies of the first edition were burnt in the Great Fire. The English verses are here, for the first time, by Aphra Behn. Includes, uncensored, the often absent or mutilated plate 17 to the Life. The first edition did not include the Life. “One of the very few English productions worthy to stand beside its best foreign contemporaries.” (Bland) See Hodnett “Francis Barlow” and “Aesop in England” for a full discussion of this book.
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