Beschreibung:

Samuel Howitt
A new work of animals: principally designed from the fables of Aesop, Gay, and Phaedrus. London: Edward Orme 1811
4to (286 x 216mm.), 100 uncoloured plates, contemporary straight-grained red morocco gilt by Thomas Gosden, spine with raised bands in six compartments, decorated in gilt and blind with repeated animal motif of sheep, covers with roll-tooled decoration in gilt and blind, gilt stamp of a stag trippant on covers, gilt edges, brown endpapers, some light spotting, extremities slightly rubbed
Bound by Thomas Gosden (1780-1840), an English bookbinder, collector, bookseller, publisher, and sportsman.Condition reportCondition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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