Aesop (c. 620-564 BCE) trans. John Ogilby (1600-1676)

Aesop (c. 620-564 BCE) trans. John Ogilby (1600-1676)

The Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse: Adorn'd with Sculpture. London: Printed by Thomas Roycroft for the Author, 1668.Second edition (new title page, a re-issue of the 1665 edition sheets), [Together with] Aesopics, or a Second Collection of Fables, first edition; two large folio volumes, both illustrated throughout; first volume with portrait of Ogilby, frontispiece, engraved vignettes and initials, and eighty-one full-paged plates, all but two plates without text; Aesopics illustrated with sixty-eight full-paged plates in early issue before captions were added; both volumes bound in full leather, same height, but not uniform bindings, some tears, spotting to contents, 16 x 10 in. (2)Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) engraved eighty-eight of the illustrations for these works, the others were executed by Dirck Stoop (c. 1610-1686) and Francis Barlow (c. 1626-1704).Wing A-697 and A-698; ESTC R19147 & R8782.Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.