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AESOP (620-564 B.C.). The Fables of Aesop, and others; for the Improvement of Youth with Instructive Applications. Two Volumes in One. London: Joseph Smith, [ca, 1830]. Thick 12mo. Illustrated with “upwards of One Hundred Engravings on Steel.” [xxii], [1]-263, [1, blank]; [iii]-[viii], [1]-310 pp. Apparently bound without title-page of volume II. Approximately 5 ¼ x 4”. Bound to style in modern quarter red morocco over marbled boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, bound with engraved front wrapper at front (front wrapper laid onto a mount and chipped, some general toning, occasional thumbsoiling in text). Very good. A PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED VERSION OF AESOP.