Description

[005301] Bennett, Charles H. The Fables of Aesop and Others Translated Into Human Nature. ill. Bennett, Charles H. London: W. Kent & Co., 1857. First Edition. 4to. Hardback. Good. [6], 22pp, plates. Contemporary half morocco and spot pattern marbled paper over boards, raised bands, spine in six panels, title in gilt to second panel, remaining panels with central floral spray, all edges marbled, spot pattern marbled endpapers

Rubbed to extremities, especially outer joints, internally lightly browned with sporadic patches of light foxing, but nothing intolerable

With a colour frontispiece, colour title vignette, and twenty-two colour plates (as called for), drawn by Bennett and engraved by Swain

For Charles H.[enry] Bennett (1829-1867), see Houfe, page 62. Ray, in The Illustrator and the Book in England From 1790 to 1914, page 133, notes that “this notable book has only recently begun to attract the attention it deserves. Bennett translated Aesop’s fables quite specifically into human nature as it displayed itself in the contemporary London world”