Fables: Ancient & Modern Translated Into Verse From Homer, Ovid, Boccace, And Chaucer by John Dryden
1734. Fourth Edition. 345 pages. No dust jacket. Fully bound in brown leather. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Heavier tanning and foxing to other pages, including pastedowns and endpapers. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Binding is weakened. Inscriptions to front free endpaper. Water staining to some pages. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Severe splits to joints with boards barely attached. Gilt lettering is dulled.