Scarce 1802 Copy, Samuel Croxall's Fables of Aesop, First Wilmington Edition, with Engravings Throughout (Great Bedtime Reading!) intricate I couldn't resist the juiciness

I couldn't resist the juiciness of this old palette

and I think its possible these were made as carnival knock down balls

(The houses themselves are very reminiscent of the Erzgebirge ones I love so much

so one would guess he was an entomologist

Scarce 1802 Copy, Samuel Croxall's Fables of Aesop, First Wilmington Edition, with Engravings Throughout (Great Bedtime Reading!) intricate I couldn't resist the juicinessThis 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