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Title: Aesop's Fables
Author:
Aesop (Greek, ca. 620–560 BCE)
Etcher:
James Kirk (British, active ca. 1761)
Artist:
After Francis Barlow (British, Lincolnshire ca. 1626–1704 London)
Publisher:
Robert Sayer (British, Sunderland 1725–1794 Bath)
Published in: London
Date: ca. 1760
Medium: Illustrations: etching
Dimensions:
plate: 6 3/8 x 6 3/4 in. (16.2 x 17.1 cm)
book: x 9 1/4 in. (17.8 x 23.5 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1965
Object Number: 65.662(1–32)
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