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Aesop's Fables with Upwards of One Hundred and Fifty Engravings on Wood
No full textThis book is identical with versions I have from 1839, 1841, and 1849. With all of these it shares the small size, here about 3¼ x 5. This version turns out to be the earliest I have of this version. Other versions' titles will speak of Emblematical Devices rather than Engravings on Wood. As is typical of Croxall versions, there are 110 fables, each with the first part of Croxall's long application. There is a Croxall preface at the beginning, but there is no T of C. Thomas Beckman wrote me earlier that the illustrations are probably by James Poupard, and they were initially used in a Philadelphia edition of 1802 by R. Aitkin. 228 pages. The front cover is separated.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Samuel Croxall N
Aesop's Fables Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices
No full textThis is a curious find. At first it seems very similar to two smaller books, published in 1839 and 1841, with which it shares the words emblematical devices and a title-page illustration of a man seated in the countryside with a scroll in hand and animals nearby. And in fact all three books present Croxall's preface and 110 of his fables. What is different here? This book is slightly larger in format (4 x almost 6½). Its illustrations are different and are generally mirror-opposites of the illustrations in those editions. It lacks the tail-pieces of the other books, and so has the smaller number of illustrations (111 with the frontispiece rather than the other books' upward of one hundred and fifty). It acknowledges Croxall as the author of the preface. It finishes on 266, not 228, and uses larger typeface. As in the other editions, it seems that the first paragraph of Croxall's Application is taken in each case. T of C at the front. At the back there are advertisements for (other) books published by J. Carpenter, J. Booker, and J. Carr. It has gilt-stamped leather. Its spine is chipped and cracked. See my comments on the 1839 edition.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Text and preface by Samuel Croxal
Aesop's Fables with Upwards of One Hundred and Fifty Emblematical Devices
No full textOne hundred and ten fables, each with a simple woodcut and many with a (sometimes generic) tailpiece. Apparently the first paragraph of Croxall's Application is taken in each case. T of C at the front. Leather cover. This little book is in surprisingly good condition for its age. What a wonderful find on the Internet! Thomas Beckman writes that the illustrations are probably by James Poupard, and they were initially used in a Philadelphia edition of 1802 by R. Aitkin. They seem also to have been copied or reproduced for an 1842 edition by John Locken in Philadelphia.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Original language: grcSamuel Croxall N
Aesop's Fables with Upwards of One Hundred and Fifty Emblematical Devices
No full textSee my identical copy of 1839 from the same publisher with the same title. The only change I see here is that we have nice leather with Aesop's Fables embossed on the cover. The top of the spine is damaged. See my comments there.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Original language: grcText unacknowledged and preface by Samuel Croxal
Samuel Dorris Dickinson papers
No full textThe Samuel Dorris Dickinson papers contain the professional and personal records of archaeologist, journalist, and author Samuel Dorris Dickinson
Fables of Aesop and others
No full textNow this is a real find! I thought I had a Croxall. The engravings (woodcuts?) are well done. A real gold mine! Besides the alphabetical T of C at the beginning, there is an index of subjects at the end. It refers mostly to the virtues inculcated in the longish applications.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Samuel Croxal
Aesop's Fables with Upwards of One Hundred and Fifty Emblematical Devices
No full textThis very little book (3¼ x 4½) reproduces almost exactly my 1839 and 1841 editions from Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company, also in Philadelphia. It thus has 228 pages. This book has even smaller margins than those, and so it can--barely--contain the same printed area per page. The green cloth cover has a pleasant gold design of the owner ready to beat the ass in DLS, while the spine has a title and gold floral pattern. The back cover seems to have been embossed without gold with the same DLS design. I repeat some of my pertinent comments from the 1839 edition. One hundred and ten fables, each with a simple woodcut and many with a (sometimes generic) tailpiece. Apparently the first paragraph of Croxall's Application is taken in each case. T of C at the front. Thomas Beckman writes that the illustrations are probably by James Poupard, and they were initially used in a Philadelphia edition of 1802 by R. Aitkin. I wrote earlier about the 1839 edition that the illustrations had been copied or reproduced for an 1842 edition by John Locken in Philadelphia. Well, in a slightly later printing, here it is!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Text unacknowledged and preface by Samuel Croxal
Fables of Aesop and Others. Translated into English. With Instructive Applications and a Print before each Fable
No full textFor a start on this little book, consult my comments on the eleventh edition (1778) and seventeenth edition (1805) of Croxall's original work of 1722. This very early American Croxall (perhaps the first US edition?) falls between the two of them. It has the typical Croxall elements of a preface (with British references changed to American) and AI before the 196 fables and an index of qualities after it. If there was a frontispiece, it is gone. The book is in poor condition, but easy to cherish nonetheless. It is missing 37-40 and parts of 313-16. The curious thing about the illustrations here is that they are ovals without rectangles around them. I have not seen that before for Croxall; Kirkall established oval within a rectangle as the standard way to illustrate a Croxall fable, and editions contemporary with this one (e.g., those in 1804 and 1807 from Mozley) follow the Kirkall pattern even as they create inferior copies of his pictures. Here the illustrations strike one as simple but strong. The Old Woman and Her Maids on 235 is done simply as a rectangle without any oval. Both covers are separated, and the book is falling apart. This book finishes the fables on 316. The other four copies I have mentioned all finish on 329.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Original language: undFirst Wilmington EditionBy Samuel Croxal
Fables of Aesop and Others Translated into English with Instructive Applications and a Print Before Each Fable
No full textSee my comments on the 1804 edition by the same publisher. By contrast, this book lacks the frontispiece and any title-page vignette; further its title above CJ on 1 (Aesop's Fables) is simpler, and the cuts are much stronger there than here. This edition has a magnificent calf cover and the standard features one can recognize from earlier Croxall editions: dedication, preface (vii-xvii), and alphabetical T of C (xviii-xxiv) at the beginning. Then some 329 pages are given to 196 fables, each with a cut and a long application. At the rear there is an index of important subjects handled in the applications. Like the other Mozley edition, this book does not number its edition but proclaims only A New Edition, Carefully Revised and Improved.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)By Samuel Croxall, D.D
The fair Circassian : a dramatic performance. Done from the original by a gentleman-commoner of Oxford. To which are added several occasional poems, by the same author
No full textThe sixth edition corrected. London : Printed for J. Watts: and sold by B. Dod at the Bible and Key in Ave-Mary-Lane near Stationers-Hall, 1743.
[xiv], 49 p. : engr frontispiece ; 17 cm. Based on the Song of Solomon.
The 'gentleman-commoner' was Samuel Croxall.
Parts of the title page are in red ink. Bound with: Poems attempted in the style of Milton/John Philips, London: Printed for E. Curll, in Covent Garden, (1744). Contains a dedication to Mrs. Anna Maria Mordaunt.
Contains a list of 'books lately published by J. Watts...'. Persistent link to this record: https://encore.qub.ac.uk/iii/encore_qub/record/C__Rb157483
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