The fables of Aesop paraphras'd in verse
Subtitle: adorn'd with sculpture, and illustrated with annotations
By: by John Ogilby ..
Contributors: Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, ill; Stoop, Dirck, ca. 1618-1686, ill; Barlow, Francis, 1626?-1702, ill; Lombart, Pierre, 1612-1682, ill
Edition: The second edition.
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Roycroft
Published: 1668
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Other titles: Aesopics.; Aesop's fables.
Notes: Signatures: pt. 1. [A]-C℗ø D-Eeþ́ Ff℗ø; pt. 2. [A]-D℗ø E-Hhþ́ Ii℗ø

Pt. 2, with special t.p., is first edition.

Ill. engraved by W. Hollar, Dirck Stoop, F. Barlow and P. Lombart; engraved head-pieces and initials. Barlow's plates (pt. 2) are mostly unsigned, but cf. E. Hodnett, Francis Barlow (1978), p. 197-206. Ill. nos. 4, 5 and 80 (pt. 1) are repeated as nos. 32, 8 and 36 (pt. 2)

Wing (2nd ed.) A697.

Wing (2nd ed.) A698.

CAI copy count is [145] leaves of plates. Ill. no. 4 (pt. 1) is repeated as no. [36] (pt. 2), no. 80 (pt. 1) is not repeated

Professor Held's notes on p. 2 of cover.

Copy of a book dealer's notice and an invoice from a bookbinder removed and placed in envelope.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The fables of Aesop paraphras'd in verse; title: pt. 2. Aesopic's. Androcleus. The Ephesian matron.