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Title(s):
The fables of Aesop / translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt.
Additional Title(s):
Aesop's fables. English.
Published/Created:
Waltham Saint Lawrence, in Berkshire : The Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXVI [1926]
Physical Description:
[2], v, [1], 94, [2] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PA3855.E5 L47 1926
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"This book was printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, in Berkshire, and completed on the 20th day of October, 1926. Wood-engravings by Celia M. Fiennes. Compositors: A.H. Gibbs and F. Young. Pressman: A.C. Cooper. The edition is re-printed from that of 1692, and is limited to 350 copies, of which 325 are for sale."--Colophon.
Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 45
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 197 of 350. Bound in cream quarter buckram with brown paper covered boards.
Subject Terms:
Aesop's fables -- Translations into English.
Fables, Greek -- Translations into English.
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1926.
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London.
Fables.
Contributors:
L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704, translator.
Fiennes, Celia, 1662-1741, engraver.
Aesop.
Gibbings, Robert, 1889-1958, printer.
Golden Cockerel Press, publisher.
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