Scarce 1802 Copy, Samuel Croxall's Fables of Aesop, First Wilmington Edition, with Engravings Throughout (Great Bedtime Reading!) medals is made of carved water

is made of carved water buffalo horn

Bobbins about 5" long

and the shapes of that "K" and "E" and "A"

16 pages filled front and back plus covers

5 7/16" x 3 7/16" and in good antique condition

Scarce 1802 Copy, Samuel Croxall's Fables of Aesop, First Wilmington Edition, with Engravings Throughout (Great Bedtime Reading!) medals is made of carved waterThis 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