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Title:: The fables of Aesop / translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Kt.
Alternate 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
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
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.
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.