Aesop; Samuel Croxall [trans.] — Aesop; Samuel Croxall

London, Frederick Warne and Co. c1868 . Cloth. A very scarce edition of The Fables of Aesop translated by Samuel Croxall, featuring eighty woodcut illustrations. In the publisher's original in mahogany cloth binding with blind stamp decorations. Undated, dated from inscription from previous owner. This edition is notable for featuring eighty woodcut illustrations, alongside two hundred and two fables. These fables include titles such as "The Frog and the Ox", "The Peacock and the Crane", "The Lion in Love", "The Wolf and the Lamb", "The Fox Without a Tail", "The Fox and the Lion", The Wolf and the Crane", "The Wolves and the Sheep", "The Cock and the Jewel", and "The Boy and the Nettle", to name a few. This copy has 14 pages of the publisher's advertisements to rear, cataloguing their popular novels priced at one shilling each. Aesop was a storyteller who is thought to have lived in ancient Greece around the 6th century BCE. He is best known for his collection of fables featuring anthropomorphic animals that illustrate moral lessons of honesty, wisdom and kindness. These fables have become enduring classics, continuing to be shared with generation after generation. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities and spine. Very slight cockling to rear panel. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two handling marks and spots towards fore edge. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Various. Very Good Indeed .