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London, Bensley for J. Edwards and E. Harding, 1797. In 2 °. With 9 finely engraved copper plates by Vandenburg, Bartolozzi, Chessman and others, each protected by tissue paper, 15 small heads and ends engraved by Bartolozzi and others, the drawings are by Lady Diana Beauclerc, stains and brownings especially near the margins, binding in rear brown leather, with gold-embossed decoration, plates framed by double frame with a star-shaped frieze at the 4 corners, title on the spine, restorations.
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Refined edition illustrated with the plates executed on the drawings of Lady Dìana Beauclerc. The & nbsp; Dryden's "Fables" are a free interpretation of the most famous works of Chaucer and Boccaccio, of the first book of the Iliad & nbsp; and part of Ovid's Metamorphos si of other works. & nbsp; & nbsp;