Fables, of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections.Part One. The Third Edition Corrected and Amended. **AND** Fables and Storyes Moralized. Being a Second Part of The Fables of Aesop, and Other Eminent Mythologists, &c. Two volumes bound as one.

Fables, of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections.Part One. The Third Edition Corrected and Amended. **AND** Fables and Storyes Moralized. Being a Second Part of The Fables of Aesop, and Other Eminent Mythologists, &c. Two volumes bound as one.

Sir Roger L’Estrange’s influential English rendering and adaptation of Aesop’s fables and other ancient moral tales, presented with extensive morals and reflections. Rather than simply translating the stories, L’Estrange frequently expands them into commentary on human behavior, politics, vice, prudence, and social conduct. This copy contains both Part One, Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists and Part Two, Fables and Storyes Moralized, bound together in one volume. The engraved portrait of L’Estrange and the full-page fable engraving add substantial visual interest.

L.Estrange, Sir Robert. 1699. London: Printed for R. Sare. Large 4to.(7.5" x 11.75") Two volumes bound as one. (14) + 476 , (16) + 238 + (2). An early rebind with dark brown cloth spine over dark brown boards, old paper label with Title and Year to spine. All edges lightly speckled red, refreshed medium green endpapers. Minor edgewear to boards, corners bumped and lightly rubbed. Calligraphic ownership with place and date elegantly to first free flyleaf. The engraved portrait frontispiece of L'Strange with professional paper repair (relined) with hand-drawn completion to repaired piece of image (see pic). Title page with small substraction problem in ink at foot determining how old when purchased, not affecting text. Toning to pages, heavier foxing and toning to first and last few leaves of each text, and elsewhere in text, most pages only lightly toned. Full page engraving of characters from fables as frontispiece.