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Fables



Book Description
Lord Byron associational interest: Mary Anne Chaworth's copy. Mary Chaworth (1785 - 1832) of Annesley Hall was Byron's first love. Of her be wrote, 'she was the beau idéal of all that my youthful fancy could paint of beautiful; and I have taken all my fables about the celestial nature of women from the perfection my imagination created in her - I say created, for I found her, like the rest of her sex, anything but angelic'.
Author
Aesop, and Samuel Croxall, trans
Date
1760
Publisher
J and R Tonson
Condition
Poor, front board detached and lacking pp. 313/314
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