One Hundred Fables, Original and Selected

London: Geo: Lawford, Saville Passage. Printed by J. Johnson, 1833. Third edition. Engraved frontispiece, 183 wood-engraved vignettes and 100 wood-engraved initials after Northcote and William Harvey. 1 vols. Lg 8vo (10 1/8 x 6 1/2"). Contemporary full brown morocco with elaborate giit-decorated covers incorporating gilt urns, fans, and clover leaves, richly gilt spines, with raised bands and black and red leather labels, a.e.g., each volume stamp-signed on the front pastedown, "Bound by J. Mackenzie Binder to the King. Third edition" Engraved frontispiece, 183 wood-engraved vignettes and 100 wood-engraved initials after Northcote and William Harvey. 1 vols. Lg 8vo (10 1/8 x 6 1/2"). Splendid set of Northcote in bindings by this London craftsman (cf. Spawn & Kinsella, TICKETED BOOKBINDERS FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN, #s 485 & 486), who was active from 1803 -1833. Ray 55