[Aesop's Fables- First Edition Ogilby Translation, 1651] The Fables of Aesop, Paraphras'd in Verse, and adorn'd with Sculpture

London: Printed for Andrew Crook, 1651. 8vo, 8 1/2 x 6 inches. 19th Century quarter calf (rebacked), earlier marbled paper covered boards. The scarce complete first edition of Ogilby's translation of 1651 with 81 copperplate illustrations of fables. Frontis cut down and mounted on old paper, other paper repairs professionally restored. Title page with "Eugenai Wright Her Book" in what appears to be a very early inscription. Lacks large corner of Plate 55, and a narrow strip at foot of Plate 38. One plate is partly colored, and a couple of drawings to versos of plates. Expert paper repair throughout with some cuts lost, but still a fabulous survival. A (truncated) few text pages with minor ink spots but nothing defacing. The first Ogilby edition herewith has the D'Avenant poem dated 165, and is thus more difficult to come by than later editions. With all, still a very presentable and certainly scarce mid-17th Century Aesop title, first edition thus. (Inventory #: 6407)