Scarce 1802 Copy, Samuel Croxall's Fables of Aesop, First Wilmington Edition, with Engravings Throughout (Great Bedtime Reading!) medals and then behind bars inside

and then behind bars inside the cage

especially that yellow

I would set this on a table with some favorite rocks on it

is made of carved water buffalo horn

Scarce 1802 Copy, Samuel Croxall's Fables of Aesop, First Wilmington Edition, with Engravings Throughout (Great Bedtime Reading!) medals and then behind bars insideThis one made me very happy to find an 1802 copy of Aesop's Fables, translated into English by Samuel Croxall, this copy specifically the "First Wilmington Edition," printed and sold by Peter Brynberg, Wilmington, De. Seems quite a good time to revisit these allegorical tales delivering moral instruction, and I must say the tales take on a special sort of gravitas when delivered in a book more than 200 years old, the reading of which requires one to