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Show Old Illustrated Book. One of the oldest Illustrated books is an edition of "Aesop's Fables," published pub-lished ubotit 1471. It has initial letters of great Interest and upward of 100 very curious wood cuts. The copies which have survived the centuries are bound ln thick oak boards, covered with stamped leather. There was a book published InFlorence .only five years after the Aesop which hud three copper-plate engravings, and one of the moat remarkable features of the early Illustrated works Is the grace and excellent fancy of their tall-plecev and type, and the fresh look' which the Ink has. |