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Langhorne, John: The fables of flora. By Dr. Langhorne. London, printed by T. Rickaby, for E. and S. Harding, 1794, pp. 73, wood-engraved text-illustrations (11 fables are each headed by illustrations signed by Stothard and the publisher and ending with bouquets of flowers), small 8vo (105 x 178 mm), gilt edges, gilt-ruled dark morocco with inside dentelles and marbled endpapers. Scattered light stains/thumbing. Nice copy of this rare work. € 350
The charming illustrations are drawn by Thomas Stothard (1755-1834), who provided fine
illustrations for various eighteenth-century novelists, Shakespeare, Milton,
others (Hunt).* Hunt 731.
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