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1936962Z12London: Ward Lock & Co 1936. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 10" by 7". Harry Rountree. Two copies of Blanche Winder's retelling of Aesop's fables beautifully illustrated with colour plates by Harry Rountree including the very scarce original dust wrapper. The Harry Rountree illustrated edition. Bound in the original cloth with pictorial boards and the original unclipped dust wrapper to one of the volumes. Illustrated by Harry Rountree with a coloured frontispiece and twenty-three coloured plates to both volumes. Collated complete. A charming illustrated collection of fables credited to Aesop a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. A two volume set featuring a complete copy and a smaller incomplete copy with the original dust wrapper. The smaller volume is lacking the pages after pp.44 but contains all twenty-four colour plates. One volume is re-backed and the other has been re-bound with the plates bound to the rear with the original spine bound to the front endpapers. Housed in a cloth clamshell box. In the publisher's original cloth re-backed with pictorial covers. The second volume is re-bound and includes the original unclipped dust wrapper. Housed in a cloth clamshell box. Externally very smart with minimal edge wear and the odd slight mark to the rear covers. Original cloth spine adhered to the front pastedown of the smaller volume. The wrap has archival repairs and a tidemark to the verso and minor creasing. Internally the slightest strain in places otherwise firm. Pages bright with the odd spot heavier to the front and rear. The clamshell has fading to the spine and joint. Very Good Indeed Ward, Lock & Co hardcover
1933963Z19London: Ward Lock & Co. Limited c1933. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4.5". Arthur Cook; Harry Rountree. Blanche Winder's retelling of the fables of Aesop in the very scarce original dust wrapper eautifully illustrated by Harry Rountree. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped very scarce dust wrapper illustrated by Harry Rountree.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece by Arthur Cooke. Blanche Winder's retelling of the fables of Aesop a collection of fables credited to Aesop a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. Undated dated by the prize label to the front. In the original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally excellent with the slightest wear to the tail of the spine. Prize bookplate to the front pastedown with offsetting to the endpapers. The wrap has the odd spot and handling mark to the rear minor sunning to the spine and tape repairs and spotting to the verso. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with only the odd spot to the front. Near Fine Ward, Lock & Co., Limited hardcover
2004Q-1404803181Picture Window Books 2004. library. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Picture Window Books unknown
180709Auspoa Liburutegia Colección Auspoa 1963. tapa blanda. 2ª Mano - Bueno/2ª Mano. Auspoa Liburutegia Colección Auspoa. 1963. Auspoa 28. ligero rozado en cubierta. ipuin onak / Fabulas de de Esopo. Euskara antes del Batua 155 p. 18x11 cm. tapa blanda Auspoa Liburutegia (Colección Auspoa) unknown
187953349Edinburgh:: Privately printed for Subscribers by Ballantyne Hanson & Co. 1879. Edition de Luxe; one of 100 copies this copy is unnumbered. old half morocco t.e.g. rebacked with original spine laid down and new endpapers. Clean tight and sound. Large 8vo. To Which are Prefixed The Life of Aesop and an Essay Upon Fable by Oliver Goldsmith. Privately printed for Subscribers by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., unknown
18799372Edinburgh:: Privately Printed for Subscribers by Ballantyne Hanson & Co. 1879. Edition de luxe printed on Whatman paper from the original wood engravings; No. 75 of 100 copies. publisher's vellum with mounted illustration t.e.g. Binding a little dust-soiled; internally clean and sound. Small folio. With the Original Wood Engravings by Thomas Bewick.to which are Added Select Supplementary Illustrations of Bewick's Genius. Privately Printed for Subscribers by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., hardcover
181875623Newcastle: Printed by E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son 1818. First edition; Royal octavo issue; Variant B. contemporary old polished calf; all edges marbled; both covers detached and spine absent. Three attractive old bookplates on pastedown; aside from the binding flaws noted a very attractive copy. . 8vo. Added engraved frontispiece portrait; illustrated throughout from wood engravings by Thomas Bewick. Roscoe 45b. With the "thumb-mark receipt" page with printed facsimile signatures of Thomas Bewick and Robert Elliott Bewick and seaweed in red over wood-engraved landscape bound before title. This is one of the few copies that bear the autograph signature of Thomas Bewick above the thumb-mark. Printed by E. Walker, for T. Bewick and Son, unknown
1975006539London: Paddington Press. A reprint of the 1818 edition with a new intro by Michael Marqusee. Attractive half-leather binding with marbled boards and matching endpapers. Without dustwrapper as issued . Fine. Hardcover. 1st thus. 1975. Paddington Press hardcover
1818405619Newcastle: E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son 1818. A very good copy internally clean and fresh joints restored and with some light wear to binding. 8vo. xxiv 376 pages. 188 fable cuts and 136 tailpieces in text. Contemporary English polished calf the sides and spines decorated in blind and gilt marbled edges by Whitehead and Sons Leeds with their ticket on pastedown. A handsome copy of Bewick's extensively and exquisitely illustrated fables. Roscoe 45. E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son unknown
1983009245San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1983. Book. Fine. Paper Covered Boards. Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. "With an original leaf from the first edition 1818 of The Fable of Aesop and a new impression from one of Bewick's original wood engravings." Fine in plain white paper jacket title in pencil at spine. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Publication no. 175 of The Book Club of California. one of 518 copies designed by Jack Werner Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press binding by the Schuberth Book Bindery. The Book Club of California Hardcover
19831247071983. San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1983. <br /> <br /> 4to 58 4pp. Frontispiece 8 illustrations an original leaf and a proof from an original block. Original brown boards white paper spine label. As issued in fine condition.<br /> <br /> § Edition limited to 518 numbered copies. The inserted leaf is " Jupiter and the Ass" and the proof is "The Boys and the Frogs". Not a rare book but an important addition to Bewick scholarship. There is a biographical sketch by John W. Borden and a history of the fables by Janet S. Krueger. The book was designed by Jack Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press who also took the new impression from the original Bewick block and lithographed at the Cloister Press. unknown
1818405619Newcastle: E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son 1818. A very good copy internally clean and fresh joints restored and with some light wear to binding. 8vo. xxiv 376 pages. 188 fable cuts and 136 tailpieces in text. Contemporary English polished calf the sides and spines decorated in blind and gilt marbled edges by Whitehead and Sons Leeds with their ticket on pastedown. A handsome copy of Bewick's extensively and exquisitely illustrated fables. Roscoe 45. <br/><br/> E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son unknown books
1818012015Newcastle: Printed by E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son 1818. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition with receipt leaf with Bewick's thumbmark facsimiles of signatures and seaweed stamped on engraved nighttime scene. This receipt page is inscribed at the top to "The Rev. H. D. Griffith". A very nice copy originally bound by Riveire but now lacking front cover with damages spine aeg with a very narrow strip of discoloring top edge of the first signatures else absent foxing and thus deserving of rebinding. Printed by E. Walker, for T. Bewick and Son hardcover books
2003BN67533Nord-Süd Verlag 2003. Hardcover. mit Kerbe am hinteren oberen Buchfalz sonst sehr gut erhalten! Nord-Süd Verlag hardcover
187534370London: Chatto & Windus 1875. Very good. Second edition of this Victorian tour de force with fine and fabulous hand-colored images of humanized animals. Eric Quayle notes that Bennett 1829-1867 had a short career which was terminated by consumption but his books were "extremely popular most passing though several editions"; this book "contains some of Bennett's finest and most vigorous work" 217. The Morgan Library's EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND THEIR ILLUSTRATORS also list it as a notable edition of Aesop. Bennett's compositions suggest the fine caricature of PUNCH but applied a classic work of ancient Greece. 9.75'' x 7.25''. Original blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black. Yellow coated endpapers. Illustrated by Bennett with 24 full-page wood engravings hand colored including title page. 22 pages. Emboss of famed Victorian bookselling firm W.H. Smith & Son to front fly leaf. Slight lean with a bit of cracking to hinges still firm. Subtle repairs to spine ends a few spots to boards. Interior lightly foxed. Bright. Chatto & Windus unknown
1857500047160London: W. Kent & Co & Bradbury and Evans 1857. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. Original decorated . Lime green cloth spineSome marks to boards foxed especially corner of plates <br/> <br/> W. Kent & Co & Bradbury and Evans hardcover
34248Paris. Jean de Bonnot. 1988. Petit In-8. Rel. éditeur. Tête dorée. Nbrs ills. N&B. TBE.
1884213868Boston MA: D. Lothrop & Co 1884. Hardcover. Good-. Red/orange boarts with gilt and black text black printed illustration on cover. Textblock fully gilt. 111 Unnumbered pages. Bw illustrations. Illustrated by E. H. Garrett F. H. Lungren F. Childe Hassam George Foster Barnes M. J. Sweeney<br /> Contents: The cats at law -- The ants and the grasshopper -- The maid and the milkpail -- The town mouse and the country mouse -- The donkey and the lion's skin -- The larks and the farmer -- The hare and the tortoise -- The fox and the stork -- The shepherd boy and the wolf -- The lion and the mouse -- The fox and the crow -- The frogs who wished a king. D. Lothrop & Co hardcover
155185London: Pictorial Literature Society. Hard Cover. Poor/No Jacket. No date shown; circa 1880's. Text block is completely detached from covers which are worn with a torn spine and the front and rear covers are nearly detached from each other. Fragile age-toned pages show some open tears and foxing. 7 1/4""w x 9 1/2""h. Approx. 90 pages. Elaborate black and white illustrations throughout. Keywords: 1800's Verse poetry Animal tales Illustrations Translated Greek Pictorial Literature Society hardcover
166648718London.: Printed by William Godbid for Francis Barlow and are to be sold by Ann Seile at the Black-Boy against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet and Edward Powell at the Swan in Little Britain. 1666. Full contemporary calf boards ruled in blind later spine with red morocco label with gilt title and blind rules in seven compartments marbled edges. Folio. 356 x 242 mm. Printed title within double rules engraved title by Barlow with central title within elaborate cartouche and surrounded by an eagle leopard boar fox wolf and lion leaf with large decorative woodcut inhabited ten-line initial and Barlow's dedication to Sir Francis Pruijan or Prujean leaf with Barlow's 'To the Reader' leaf with engraved frontispiece of Aesop with animals and additional engraving with text beneath 20 leaves with 'A Brief Prospect of the Life of Aesop' 16 leaves with 'La Vie d'Esope' 9 leaves with 'Aesopi Philosophice Fabulantis Vita' and Aesop's 110 fables illustrated with 110 engravings final leaves with 'La Table' and 'The Table' decorative woodcut initials and tail-pieces throughout; sheet size: 350 x 228 mm. A very rare large paper copy of the scarce first edition of Francis Barlow's undoubted masterpiece of English book illustration.By the time of the Restoration Francis Barlow had achieved a measure of success with his suites of prints of animals - engraved by the best such as Hollar Griffier and Place - and his decoration of houses and by the mid-1660s had contributed to the Aesop of Ogilby and Hollar. It is not entirely clear why he would wish to issue another edition of the Fables Hofer suggests a competitive nature and a different projected audience but by 1665 he had engraved a superb title it bears that date and by the time of publication in 1666 the date to the letterpress title had engraved a frontispiece of Aesop surrounded by animals and 110 half-page vignettes after his own drawings to illustrate the Fables. Each of the Fable engravings is accompanied by lines of verse by Thomas Philipott; the translations of Aesop's life into French and Latin was by Robert Codrington. Whatever Barlow's motivation the result is one of the most extensive and beautiful English illustrated books of the seventeenth century and one of the scarcest the scarcity often attributed to the loss of the sheets in the Great Fire of London. Large paper copies of this first edition are identifiable see ESTC through various issue points all present here but also as per Philip Hofer the transposition of some of Barlow's engravings. In the present copy the engraving for 'Fab. XLVIII' 'The Ant and Fly' is in fact that for 'Fab. XLXIX' 'The Ant and Grasshopper'. Hofer indicates too that the engravings for 'Fab. LXX' 'The Tortoise and Hare' and 'Fab. LXXI' The Young Man and His Cat' are also transposed however in the present copy they are not the margins headlines etc. conform to the remaining large paper leaves although 'The Young Man and His Cat' features the erroneous title 'The Nurse and Her Child' 'Fab. LXIX' albeit with the correct page number. Large paper copies also feature 'FINIS' beneath the signature Ppp at the foot of the leaf with the final engraving for 'FAB. CX' 'The Tortoise & Eagle'; in addition the spacing of the text in the large paper copy also suggests that the text on this leaf was reset.A second edition was published in 1687 with additional plates to illustrate the life of Aesop and with Philipott's verse replaced with new verse by Aphra Behn. A third edition was issued in 1703 and a posthumous French edition appeared in 1714 published in Amsterdam; Philip Hofer suggests that the third edition was really made up of unused sheets from the two earlier editions but with a new title and that the edition in French - it makes use of some of Barlow's plates - is not a Barlow edition.'This seventeenth-century polyglot English-French-Latin Aesop is handsomely illustrated with engravings after designs by Francis Barlow 1626 - 1702 an English painter renowned for his pictures of country life and field sports. He was perhaps the finest English draughtsman of animal scenes in the seventeenth century. Barlow who published the book at his own expense explains in his preface that he intends the work to contribute to the education of young people. This is the first edition; the relatively few copies known are all survivors of the Great Fire of London which swept over the printer's premises in 1666.' Early Children's Books and Their Illustration.'No artist has responded with more sensitivity and less sentimentality to the gentle grace of deer . The least of creatures the frog the hare the snake and the swallow and the least favoured of them the ass the boar and the wolf -- he draws them all with an intimacy charm and inviolable integrity never surpassed in an English book . '. Edward Hodnett.'Francis Barlow was the first native English book illustrator - indeed the leading interpretative illustrator in England before 1800 . Otto Benesch of the Albertina Museum Vienna has called him 'one of the greatest illustrators of all time'.' Edward Hodnett.This large paper issue of the 1666 Aesop is very scarce: while ESTC lists 17 copies for the small paper issue see ESTC R21542 it notes only two of the large: the copy at the Huntington and that at the Morgan Library and Museum New York; Harvard also holds a copy.ESTC R477463; see 'Francis Barlow' by Edward Hodnett 1978; see #9 in the Morgan Library and Museum's 'Early Children's Books and Their Illustration' 1975; see Philip Hofer's 'Francis Barlow's Aesop' printetd in the Harvard Library Bulletin Autumn 1948. Printed by William Godbid for Francis Barlow, and are to be sold by Ann Seile at the Black-Boy against St. Dunstan's Church in F hardcover
168747459London.: H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow. 1687. Full contemporary midnight blue morocco by the 'Barlow's Aesop Binder' boards ruled in gilt to surround gilt tooled decorative panels with foliate decorative corner pieces banded spine with elaborate decorative tooling and title 'BARLOWs AESOP' gilt turn ins and board edges with gilt roll tool decoration marbled endpapers a.e.g. black morocco-backed velvet-lined buckram box. Folio. 372 x 242 mm. Engraved title printed title engraving with the Devonshire arms dedication leaf 'to the Right Honourable William of Devonshire' leaf 'to the Reader' engraved frontispiece and 31 engraved plates illustrating the 'Life of Aesop' and 110 half-page vignette engravings to the 'Fables'. A superlative large paper copy in a contemporary English binding by the Barlow's Aesop Binder of Barlow's undoubted masterpiece of English book illustration.This copy - printed on excellent paper - is in a beautiful contemporary binding the binding in a beautiful state of preservation by the ‘Barlow’s Aesop Binder’. Few bindings by the 'Barlow’s Aesop Binder' are known and the present copy identifiable by the lettering to the spine and the comparable decorative tooling is one of only a handful. Active in the 1680s and 1690s the bindery worked certainly for William and Mary although the identified copies of Barlow’s masterpiece from the bindery include too the Devonshire dedication copy from Chatsworth the Cracherode copy both these now at the British Library Pepys’ copy at Magdalene Cambridge the present copy and one other in a private collection in the US.This second edition of Francis Barlow's masterpiece adds 31 plates 32 including the frontispiece to illustrate the life of Aesop including the often mutilated 'obscene' plate here untouched and includes verse by Aphra Behn 1640 - 1689 commissioned especially for each of the 'Fables'. The unsigned plates are engraved by Barlow and the remainder by Thomas Dudley a student of Wenceslaus Hollar. Barlow himself drew and engraved all of the illustrations for the 'Fables' themselves.'The Ingenious Mrs. A. Behn has been so obliging as to perform the English Poetry which in short comprehends the Sense of the Fable and Moral: Whereof to say much were needless since it may sufficiently recommend it self to all Persons of Understanding.' Francis Barlow.'Francis Barlow was the first native English book illustrator - indeed the leading interpretative illustrator in England before 1800 . Otto Benesch of the Albertina Museum Vienna has called him 'one of the greatest illustrators of all time'.' Edward Hodnett.Complete copies of Barlow's work in good condition are scarce the present copy however a large paper example in its original binding by theh Barlow’s Aesop Binder printed on a different thick paper stock and entirely unsophisticated is of the utmost rarity. This is borne out if it is necessary to provide evidence by the fact that this copy featured in two sophisticated collections of illustrated books of the last 50 years: firstly that of Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow secondly that of Robert S. Pirie; the latter collector rarely if ever settled for second best and would certainly have bought another copy if he had found one. That he had to wait for the present copy is telling.Wing 703; see ‘English Restoration Bindings’ by Howard Nixon pg. 40 nos. 98 / 99; see 'Francis Barlow' by Edward Hodnett 1978. H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow. hardcover
55926New York: Castle Books N.D. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Chips and tears creases to jacket. All corners of flaps are slightly clipped. No date. Scarce in a dust jacket. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall. Castle Books hardcover
BN329544Lirabelle. Hardcover. Le rat des villes et le rat des champs <br/><br/>Le rat des villes et le rat des champs Ayako Kubo et Esope Lirabelle hardcover
1701aes33Amsterdam: Francisci Halme. VG : in very good condition. Rebacked with new endpapers. Wear to corners and laid-on spine panels. Archival repairs to verso of folding portrait plate. Library stamp to verso of fep. Inner hinges cracked. Browning and occasional marking commensurate with age. 1701. First Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 270mm x 230mm 11" x 9". 32pp. 160pp. 84pp. index. Engraved folding frontis portrait by P. van Gunst after B. Vaillant; engraved frontispiece by P. Boutats after J. Goeree; 18 engraved plates with 6 roundels on each plate; additional engraved decorations. Beautifully illustrated edition of the 94 Aesop fables with 5 additional fables found by the German philologist and classical scholar Marquart Gudius. Together with a Life of Phædrus by Joanne Scheffero. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Francisci Halme hardcover
1912aes01London: William Heinemann. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Cover heavily marked; spine darkened. Sporadic marking and foxing; some discolouration to margins. Occasional staining not impinging. Browning to pages sometimes heavy. Some off-setting. Previous owner's inscription dated 1917 to fep verso. Teg - remaining edges untrimmed. 1912. Limited Edition 1042/1450. White/gilt decorated hardback cloth cover. 300mm x 240mm 12" x 9". xxix 224pp. 13 mounted plates with captioned tissue-guards; additional illustrations in b/w. Signed on the limitation page by Rackham. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . William Heinemann hardcover