Description: New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1865. No Jacket. 1st Edition thus. Illustrated with 111 engravings from original designs by Henry Walker Herrick. 12mo. 311 pp. Green and gilt boards with period yellow end papers. Gilt title and gilt image of a fox on front and spine. Includes a life of Aesop. Aesop (c. 620–564 BCE; formerly rendered as Æsop) was an ancient fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Many of the tales associated with him are characterized by anthropomorphic animal characters. Henry Walker Herrick (1824 - 1906) was active/lived in New Hampshire. Henry Herrick is known for town-landscape, birds, genre.
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Cloth
Place of Publication: New York
Signed: No
Publisher: Hurd and Houghton
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1865
Language: English
Illustrator: Henry Walker Herrick
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Author: Aesop
Personalized: No
Topic: Classics
