Reynard the fox
Subtitle: a renowned apologue of the Middle Age, reproduced in rhyme.
Contributors: Naylor, Samuel, 1809-1865.; Richards, Charles (printer); Westleys and Clark
Publisher: Longmans
Published: 1845
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 55
Subjects: Fables.; Foxes -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Reynard the Fox. English
Notes: T.p. printed in red, blue and black.  Half-title, caption titles, pagination, decorated initials, small tail-pieces and parts of the text printed in red.  Beginning initial of each "Fytte" printed in blue and red.  Small head-pieces at the beginning of each "Fytte" printed in blue or green.

Preface signed by "S. Naylor." and dated 1844.

" ... The Low-German edition, accordingly, is that from which I have worked: 'hovering (if I may be allowed to appropriate what Goethe said, in reference to his own delightful version), between translation and paraphrase.'  It is in the irregular verse (doggrel is not the precise term) of the Low-German version of Alkmar.  After the example of Goethe, the poem has been divided into cantos, or, more properly, pauses (here called fyttes), which, in the earlier editions, are distributed over numerous books, and these again subdivided into chapters; an arrangement by no means so favourable to the continuity of the narrative, as the method here substituted."--Preface.

MASS copy 1: Bound in white fine morocco-grain cloth embossed with a series of nested decorative borders.  Borders surround a small central square panel on both the upper and lower covers, each blocked in a copper-coloured pigment over brown paper onlays with a different illustration showing a fox engaged in dealings with other animals and foxes.  Title blocked in brown on the spine; t.e. tinted brown.  Endpapers painted blue.  With binder's ticket: "Bound by  Westleys &  Clark.  London.".

MASS copy 2:  Bound in the same cloth, with the same embossed design and with the same images blocked in a copper-coloured pigment on the upper and lower covers as copy 1.  Title blocked in brown on the spine; t.e. tinted brown.  Endpapers painted blue.  With the same binder's ticket as copy 1.