Fables of La Fontaine, Translated from the French, 2 Volumes in One by Elizur Wright, Jr - 1856

Allen Brothers, 1869. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. No DJ. Sunned spine. Shelf wear to cover edges. Name stamped on front free page: Louis R. Spencer. I guess Louis never read it because it's unread. Binding is fine. No other markings in book.

Philadelphia: Davis, Porter & Co.. 290pp. Purple cloth hard cover with gilt spine title, front board and spine heavily sunned, fore-corners bumped, notable chipping to the head and foot of the spine cloth. Illustrated throughout. Minimal soiling to the pages. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" Tall. Q3 . Good. Hardcover. Fifth Edition.. 1866.

Hardcover. Very Good. VOl. 2 Fables of La Fontaine With Illustrations from Designs by J.J. Grandville. Translated From the French by Elizur Wright New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1865. Volume two only, Books 7 -12, with index. pebbled brown boards, very lightly edgeworn. Binding very good pages exc.

Boston: Elizur Wright Jr., 1841. Book. Illus. by J. J. Grandville. Fair. Hardcover. Second Edition. 250mm Tall, 4to. Fables in poems with splendid illustrations. 245pp. Front pastedown cracked with tape mark down hinge. Previous owners name on front free endpaper. Back cover almost detached with tape marks down hinge. Wear to head and foot of spine with small loss at head. Cover corners worn. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.

New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1865. Two volumes. Small octavo, rebound in recent brown cloth/sturdy library cloth bindings, pp. xliv, [45]- 245 & 351, illustrated with small engravings. Signature of Isaac Chalom Edrehi on endpaper and title-page of each volume, and his frequent pencil notes throughout. Very good..

Elizur Wright, Jr. and Tappan and Dennet, Boston, 1841. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Grandville, J. J. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 2-volume set (complete). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Two-volume set translated from the French by Elizur Wright, Jr., Volume I does not specify edition, but Volume II is Second Edition stated. Three-quarter leather and marbled paper over boards, spine gilt decorated with five raised bands, gilt stamped lettering, all edges gilt in very good condition, decorated end papers, two-page extra engraved illustrated title page, illustrated by J. J. Grandville; Volume I, xlvii, 245 pages, Index; Volume II, 339 pages. Both volumes have previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down (a large and not particularly attractive bookplate), light wear at corners, with Vol. I top front corner and Vol. II top back… Read More

New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1837. No Binding. Very Good. crown octavo (20.5x13 cm). - VIII, pp.[1], 346-452. - Disbound -- Elizur Wright (1804-1885) was a Yale graduate, a mathematician, often described as the "father of life insurance" in the United States, and a great advocate of abolition. In 1833, he founded, along withLewis Tappan, Arthur Tappan, Theodore Weld and James Birney, the American Anti-Slavery Society. - He incurred the enmity of slavery's advocates, and once they tried to kidnap him and bring to North Carolina. - The present issue of the quarterly is devoted almost in its entirety to the Fourth Annual Report of the Society. The report records many cruel events. An example: "Flogging to death. - A negro, the property of Mr John Skinner, of Society Hill, S. C., was flogged by his overseer, one Bill Schenck, on the 25th, ult., in such a severe manner that he died the same evening. Schenck was examined before a justice, and discharged. -… Read More

New York: Printed by William S. Dorr, No. 70 Fulton Street, 1835. 8vo. 87, [1] pp. Printed blue-green publisher’s softcovers, contents on back cover, punch-sewn at gutter margin as issued (minor edgewear, slight chipping to spine, 1 closed tear w/ minor archival repair on inner back cover), still VG- copy. First edition of this surprisingly uncommon report of the second meeting of this pioneering American abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison, editor of The Liberator magazine, and Arthur Tappan, while also featuring contributions by Frederick Douglass, and William Wells Brown, an African-American freedman. The society was very controversial as by the mid-1830’s slavery was ensconced into the American economy, feeding wealth not only to Southern planters, but also Northern merchants, textile factory owners, and shipowners. The first meeting, and later misrepresentation had set off violent the violent Farren riots in New York where abolitionists homes and properties were attacked.… Read More

Boston, New York and London, resp.: Tappan and Dennet; William A. Coleman; Edward Moxon, 1841. First Edition Thus . Full Morocco. Very Good . First Grandville-illustrated edition in English. Extra-illustrated! 8vo. 240 by 14.5 cm. xlvii, [1], 244, [4], 339 pp. With 60 Grandville plates from the Fournier first edition of 1839, fifteen of which have been hand-colored especially for this copy, and with Grandville's head and tailpieces and numerous text vignettes. With the extra-illustration, there are an additional 36 hand-colored plates plus 17 B/W engravings by Massard, Collyer, Schroeder, etc. See Gordon Ray, Art of the French Illustrated Book, no. 191. Also Grand Carteret II, 357-358. Bound in full red crushed Levant morocco. Double gilt fillets. Five gilt ruled raised bands. Six double gilt bordered compartments. Gilt tooled edge corners. Scattered foxing -- most leaves unaffected, but occasionally somewhat heavy. Light wear to the binding. Still a highly attractive and unique copy.