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The fables of Aesop paraphras'd in verse : adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations / by John Ogilby ...
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.
- Series:
- Early English books online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fables.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (9 unnumbered pages, 211 pages, 80 leaves of plates)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by Thomas Roycroft, for the author, 1665.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Includes 83 full-page engravings, comprising frontispiece and 57 plates by Wenceslaus Hollar (many signed), several by Ro. Stoop, several anonymous, and Ogilby's portrait by P. Lombart after P. Lilly. The illustrations to fables 14-15 are combined in one engraving. The designs resemble those, presumably by F. Cleyn, of the 1651 quarto edition, q.v. Pictorial initial and headpiece.
- Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.
- Bound with: Aesopics, or, a second collection of fables (Wing A698).
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 754:23a) s1999 miun s
- Cited in:
- Wing A693
- OCLC:
- 12093286
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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