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THBSelected Fables of Esop, Dodsley 1761
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522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveJan 19, 2025
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- Lot Description
This book is titled Selected Fables Of Esop And Other Fabulists, In Three Books, printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pallmall and published in 1761. The book is bound in leather, with five raised bands and a red label with gilt letters on the spine, leather boards with double-gilt ruled borders, blank endpapers with the most unique messages on them - they are inscribed in ink by James Russell and the one on the front flyleaf says “you can’t spleak splain for spluttering” and the message on the rear endpapers says “James Russell is my name and England is my nation, the Dock yard is my dwelling place and Christ is my Salvation”, with an allegorical frontispiece, then the title page, a price of Three Shillings for a bound copy of the book on the title page, a four-page Preface (i - iv), followed by The Life of Esop, Collected From Ancient Writers, by Mons. De Meriziac, with Notes (iii - xliii), An Essay on Fable by R. Dodsley (3 - lxiii) - yes, the page numbers start with Arabic numbers and switch to Roman numerals - then an illustration to precede the text - the illustration has twelve round panels all on one page - then the text, which is 204 pages long, and an Index to the Three Book (the index is twenty-eight pages long) and we believe the book is missing some of the plates, but that seems to be a binder or publisher’s error because there is just one page torn from the book (between pages 182 and 183), and with the numbering problem in the Essay on Fable, we think some of the plates might have been left out by the binder or the publisher.
The book measures 7 3/16 x 4 11/16 inches wide and needs to be rebound. The front board is detached and the rest of the binding is tight, there is light loss at the crown and at the heel, with light rubbing at the edges of the spine and at the tips, some of the gilt-ruled borders on the covers have faded a bit, there is browning on the endpapers and offset on the title page from the frontispiece and offset on the first Index page from the illustration page opposite, chips on the edge of two pages, and the pages of text are rather clean, so a good book to be taken care of and preserved.
The starting estimate is low because we’re giving you a chance to restore the book without costing you an arm and a leg; the price for a sound copy starts at nearly $400 and jumps to nearly $3000 online, and we found only three copies of this title listed on the rare book website we use, so the book is rare indeed.
Condition: Front board is detached.
Size: 7 3/16 x 4 11/16 x 1 1/2 in.
#8714
Condition
Front board is detached.
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7 3/16 x 4 11/16 x 1 1/2 in.
