AESOP. The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse ... By John Ogilby London: Thomas Warren for Andrew Crook, 1651. 4° (214 x 155mm). Etched portrait of Ogilby, frontispiece (outer margin just shaved into plate area) and 80 plates, all by Francis Cleyn (3 plates with small holes or tears to blank margins, 3 leaves of text shaved with slight loss to page numbering.) Early-18th-century speckled calf, spine and edges of boards gilt, spine in six compartments with raised bands, the second with red morocco lettering-piece. Provenance : Nath. Cholmley (18th-century armorial bookplate). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF OGILBY'S TRANSLATION. 'To call these versions paraphrases is misleading ... they are original treatments of familiar themes. Ogilby gives free play to his imagination as he retells the fables with so many amplifications of homely detail and classical allusions that what would ordinarily have been eighty-one pages or a little more becomes two hundred and thirty-six.' (E. Hodnett. Francis Barlow First Master of English Book Illustration p.79). Wing A-269.
AESOP. The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse ... By John Ogilby London: Thomas Warren for Andrew Crook, 1651. 4° (214 x 155mm). Etched portrait of Ogilby, frontispiece (outer margin just shaved into plate area) and 80 plates, all by Francis Cleyn (3 plates with small holes or tears to blank margins, 3 leaves of text shaved with slight loss to page numbering.) Early-18th-century speckled calf, spine and edges of boards gilt, spine in six compartments with raised bands, the second with red morocco lettering-piece. Provenance : Nath. Cholmley (18th-century armorial bookplate). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF OGILBY'S TRANSLATION. 'To call these versions paraphrases is misleading ... they are original treatments of familiar themes. Ogilby gives free play to his imagination as he retells the fables with so many amplifications of homely detail and classical allusions that what would ordinarily have been eighty-one pages or a little more becomes two hundred and thirty-six.' (E. Hodnett. Francis Barlow First Master of English Book Illustration p.79). Wing A-269.
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