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192621150211926. Waltham Saint Lawrence Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press. 1926. Large 8vo. Cream-backed brown publisher's boards lettered in gilt to spine in typographic dust-jacket; with 11 wood engravings by Celia M. Fiennes; pp. 8 iii-v 1 94 6; almost entirely uncut spine tips lightly bumped previous bookseller sticker ""Paul Elder & Co San Francisco"" to rear paste-down bookplate of Alma Ruth Lavenson to the front paste-down see below; a near-fine copy; the jacket is lightly spotted browned along spine and to folds chipped to extremities with some closed tears along spine; good but seldom found.Limited edition number 268 of 350 copies of L'Estrange's translation of the Fables rare in dust-jacket.L'Estrange first published his version of the fables in 1692 and it is now regarded as one of the most popular English translations. Commissioned by a group of booksellers his edition appeared two years after Locke had recommended Aesop as an ideal first reading book for children. As Muir notes it was ""the best and largest collection of fables in English and he had children especially in mind when making his compilation"". L'Estrange's Aesop is in fact ""an assemblage of fables and facetiae from a variety of sources ancient and modern the second volume being wholly un-Aesopian. The trenchant reflections added to the individual fables possess a strong political animus and were to draw severe criticism from the later Whig fabulist Samuel Croxall; but all L'Estrange's translations have some degree of political colouring"" DNB.The simplistic yet highly effective wood engravings are by Celia M. Fiennes a direct descendant of the seventeenth-century travel writer Celia Fiennes. She was an accomplished printmaker and illustrator - in the same year as this publication she produced twelve wood engravings for the Cresset Press edition of Matthew Stevenson's 1661 work The Twelve Moneths.Provenance: From the library of the American photographer Alma Ruth Lavenson 1897-1989. Lavenson was particularly prolific in the 1920s and 30s and was influenced by Pictorialism; she worked alongside photographers such as Ansel Adams Imogen Cunningham and Edward Weston and developed friendships with these artists.Chanticleer 45. See Muir English Children's Books 1600 to 1900. hardcover
1909240046New York: Hodder and Stoughton 1909. First American Trade Edition first printing. Publisher's full green cloth illustratively stamped in black and titled in gilt housed in publisher's illustrated box. Very fine in very good toned and edge worn publisher's illustrated box with some minor reinforcements partial original glassine jacket laid in. Illustrations and text remain bright and clean. With twenty-three full-color tipped-in illustrations by Edward J. Detmold. Color frontispiece mis-bound at p. 109. Quarto. xvi 152pp. 9.25" x 6.5" GOLDEN AGE AESOP<br /> <br /> One of the most famed Victorian illustrators of the animal kingdom pairs here with one of the great books of fables. Issued in the UK and US by Hodder & Stoughton in 1909 this sumptuous quarto brings the ancient moral tales of Aesop vividly to life through Detmold's twenty-three full-color plates. Bridging the gap between the Victorian and Edwardian eras Detmold became one of the most gifted animal illustrators of the early twentieth-century combining scientific observation with decorative elegance. Produced during the Golden Age of illustrated gift books this volume exemplifies the artistry and craftsmanship of the period and remains one of the most beautiful modern interpretations of these classic fables. <br /> <br /> A fine first American Trade Edition preserved in extremely scarce illustrated publisher's box. Hodder and Stoughton unknown
1912180219011London: William Heinemann 1912. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. Deluxe limited edition; copy #540 of 1450 signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. Publisher's buckram cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good. Cloth lightly soiled darkened at spine lightly toned and with light staining to edge of rear cover. Dark stain to gutter at top margin of roughly the first third of pages stain to bottom for edge margin to last several leaves and endsheet. Thirteen full-color plates mounted on brown paper with captioned tissue guards all present. William Heinemann hardcover
1912180219011London: William Heinemann 1912. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. Deluxe limited edition; copy #540 of 1450 signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. Publisher's buckram cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good. Cloth lightly soiled darkened at spine lightly toned and with light staining to edge of rear cover. Dark stain to gutter at top margin of roughly the first third of pages stain to bottom for edge margin to last several leaves and endsheet. Thirteen full-color plates mounted on brown paper with captioned tissue guards all present. William Heinemann hardcover books
1931215926Paris: Harrison 1931. Limited. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Calder Alexander. Illustrated with fifty drawings by Alexander Calder. 124pp. Tall thin 8vo original boards with blue printed d.w wrappers slightly foxed; uncut edges 2-piece red board slipcase is broken. Paris: Harrison of Paris 1931. A near fine copy in a good slipcase.<br/> <br/> From a total edition of 615 copies printed on Auvergne hand-made paper this is one of only 20 marked "not for sale". The fifth publication of Harrison of Paris.<br/> <br/> Harrison unknown
1931215926Paris: Harrison 1931. Limited. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Calder Alexander. Illustrated with fifty drawings by Alexander Calder. 124pp. Tall thin 8vo original boards with blue printed d.w wrappers slightly foxed; uncut edges 2-piece red board slipcase is broken. Paris: Harrison of Paris 1931. A near fine copy in a good slipcase.<br/><br/> From a total edition of 615 copies printed on Auvergne hand-made paper this is one of only 20 marked "not for sale". The fifth publication of Harrison of Paris.<br/><br/> Harrison unknown books
1930306689San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1930. Number 160 of 200 copies 175 for sale. Initials and hand-colored decorations by Valenti Angelo. 1 vols. 8vo. Full brick-red morocco. Bookplate of Julia Wightman. Fine. Angelo Valenti. Number 160 of 200 copies 175 for sale. Initials and hand-colored decorations by Valenti Angelo. 1 vols. 8vo. Grabhorn Bibliography 142 Grabhorn Press unknown
1930306689San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1930. Number 160 of 200 copies 175 for sale. Initials and hand-colored decorations by Valenti Angelo. 1 vols. 8vo. Full brick-red morocco. Bookplate of Julia Wightman. Fine. Angelo Valenti. Number 160 of 200 copies 175 for sale. Initials and hand-colored decorations by Valenti Angelo. 1 vols. 8vo. Grabhorn Bibliography 142 Grabhorn Press unknown books
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
190925975London: Hodder and Stoughton 1909. First edition. Illustrated with 23 tipped-in color plates by Edward J. Detmold. 4to publisher's original tan cloth the upper cover with an elaborate pictorial decoration of a falcon in red with lettering in green the spine gilt lettered with decorative tool in red. xvi 152 pp. A very nice copy free of the inevitable browning to the endpapers. The binding attractive and sound hinges fine and firm the plates bright and pleasing. A VERY PLEASING COPY AND QUITE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. These illustrations represent in our opinion Detmold's very best work. Their grace and sensitivity reflect a certain Eastern sensibility. The artist’s powers in the delicate communication of nature’s spirit are exemplified by these wonderful paintings rich with the wide variety of the colours in the spectrum. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
194135131Paris l'Emblme du Secr 1941 In-4, maroquin noir, encadrement de filets dors sur les plats, dos quatre nerfs orn de filets dors, filets or sur les coupes; encadrements intrieurs orns de filets dors s'entrelaant aux angles, doublures et gardes de soie moire rouge grenat, doubles gardes de papier mordor, tranches dores sur brochure, couverture imprime. Etui (Charles Septier).Nouvelle traduction augmente la fin de chaque fable de quatrains et illustre par Andr Collot de 41 compositions dont 20 gravures hors texte en taille-douce et 21 vignettes in texte graves sur bois en deux teintes. Tirage limit 242 exemplaires numrots. Un des 170 exemplaires sur vlin d'Arches comprenant une suite de dcomposition des couleurs des 21 vignettes.
1912882245London: Heinemann: 1912. 1/1450 numbered copies SIGNED BY RACKHAM at limitation statement on verso of half-title. Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. White buckram with gilt stamping including vignettes at spine and front cover t.e.g. untrimmed with numerous full-page and text b/w illustrations. There are 13 tipped-in color plates from watercolors by Rackham with brown art paper mounts. Spine is lightly sun-browned also showing mild wear and some soiling to spine ends. Text pages show some aging following each art paper mount. Includes a printed 1912 flyer for a Rackham exhibition of his watercolors used for this book. Lacking board slipcase. A lovely copy . By the Artist. First Limited Edition. White Buckram Gilt. Excellent. Illus. by Arthur Rackham. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Heinemann: Hardcover
19792606240072Easton Press 1979. Hardcover. Like New. 41 volume Easton Press set Hardcover. Bound in full leather. Stamped with 22kt gold gilt design on cover front back and spine. All edges gold. Silk moire fabric end papers. Satin ribbon place holder. Fine binding and cover. Clean unmarked pages. Some volumes still in publisher's shrink wrap. For more than 30 years the Easton Press has been the standard for finely bound profusely gilt classic leather bindings. <br>Attractive set appealing to the classics reader and decorator alike. Includes some of the most influential books of all time across poetry philosophy and literature. <br>This is an oversized or heavy book which WILL require additional postage for Priority Mail or International delivery outside the US. <br> Contains the following volumes: Aesop - Aesop’s Fables; Aristophanes – The Birds The Frogs; Aristotle – Politics & The Poetics; Bronte Charlotte – Jane Eyre; Bronte Emily – Wuthering Heights; Bunyan John – The Pilgrim’s Progress; Cervantes - Don Quixote; Confucius – The Analects of Confucius; Conrad Joseph – Lord Jim; Crane Stephen – Red Badge of Courage; Dante – The Divine Comedy; Dickens Charles – David Copperfield; Dickens Charles – Great Expectations; Doyle Sir Arthur Conan – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; Dumas Alexandre – The Three Musketeers; Fielding Henry – Tom Jones; Goethe Johann Wolfgang von – Faust; Grimm – Brothers Grimm’s Fairy Tales; Hardy Thomas – Return of the Native; Homer – Odyssey; Keats John – Collected Poems; Khayyam Omar – The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Machiavelli Niccolo – The Prince; Melville Herman – Moby-Dick; Milton John – Paradise Lost; Plato – Dialogues on Love and Friendship; Rousseau Jean-Jacques– The Confessions; Scott Walter – The Talisman; Shakespeare William – The Comedies; Shakespeare William – The Histories; Shakespeare William – The Tragedies; Sophocles – Oedipus the King; Sterne Lawrence – Tristram Shandy; Stevenson Robert Louis – Treasure Island; Swift Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels; Thoreau Henry David – Walden; Turgenev Ivan – Fathers and Sons; Twain Mark – Huckleberry Finn; Voltaire – Candide; Whitman Walt – Leaves of Grass; Yeats W.B. – Collected Poems. Easton Press hardcover
1976122907Folio. London: The Scolar Press 1976. Folio 8 cxlii pp. With illustrations in woodcut throughout. Full brown morocco ruled in black backstrip lettered in black and four raised bands slipcase as new. § De luxe edition # XLIII of 50 printed on paper specially made by hand by Barcham Green of Hayle Mill. This is the first facsimile edition of Caxton's "Fables of Esope" 1484 STC 175. It reproduces original size the unique perfect copy of the work in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle which contains a life of Aesop and is illustrated with woodcuts. Caxton translated the fables from Julien Macho's 1482 French version and it proved so popular the version was still being printed in 1658. The Scolar Press hardcover books
1912IYC132297London: William Heinemann 1912. 1st thus. hardback. Very good 1st thus edition original white cloth spine and front board lettered and decorated in gilt top edge gilt others untrimmed 13 tipped-in colour plates with tissue-guards spine darkened finger-soiling to covers endpapers spotted mounts offset onto adjacent text-leaves as often qty: 1 First edition thus number 743 of 1450 copies signed by the illustrator. 4to 300 x 240 / 12"" x 9_. "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form which is after all the basic device of the morality is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.' Rackham's genius is such that it bridges the two and carries the didactic fable into the realm of fairy story and lends to the imaginative world of fairies a tangible and convincing reality"" Gettings pp. 83-84. Limited numbered edition signed by Rackham. William Heinemann hardcover
191267929Deluxe Edition Signed by Arthur Rackham RACKHAM Arthur illustrator. AESOP. CHESTERTON G.K. contributor. VERNON JONES V.S. translator. ∆sop's Fables. A new translation by V.S. Vernon Jones. With an introduction by G.K. Chesterton and illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann 1912. Limited to 1450 numbered copies signed by the artist. This being number 591. Large quarto. xxix 1 blank 223 1 pp. Thirteen color plates including frontispiece mounted on heavy brown paper with descriptive tissue guards and fifty-three drawings in black and white nineteen full-page. Original white buckram pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt others uncut. Occasional browning from plate mounts as usual. Spine sunned front board with slight soiling. Very good. Latimore and Haskell pp. 38-39. Riall p. 111. HBS 67929. $1750 William Heinemann hardcover books
191217231London: William Heinemann 1912. Limited Edition; First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good bound in full white buckram with gilt titles and decorations. Minor wear toning weak smudges and a weak/faint stain to crown of front panel does not affect interior. Interior clean and unmarked binding strong. 4to 11 3/4"h x 9 1/4"w. Beautiful edition with twelve full-page color illustrations in-laid on brown paper 53 black & white in-text illustrations. Limited to 1400 copies signed by Rackham. William Heinemann hardcover
194151581Paris A l'Emblme du Secr 1941 In-4, en feuilles, couverture imprime. Chemise, tui.Cette nouvelle traduction augmente la fin de chaque fable de quatrains, est illustre par Andr Collot de 42 compositions dont 20 hors-texte en taille-douce et 22 vignettes in texte graves sur bois en deux teintes. Tirage limit 242 exemplaires numrots. Un des 12 exemplaires sur japon nacr rservs l'artiste (plus petit tirage avec 5 exemplaires sur madagascar), sign par Andr Collot. Exemplaire enrichi d'une suite en noir des hors-texte avec remarques, d'une dcomposition des 2 teintes des 22 bois, de 3 dessins originaux en couleurs signs par l'artiste (reprsentant un chameau, un renard et une chvre) et du cuivre grav ayant servi l'impression de l'illustration pour La Fable d'un lion et d'une chvre.
199785803University of Washington Press. New. 1997. Hardcover. 0295976411 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 56 pages; 23 illustrations. -- with a bonus offer-- . University of Washington Press hardcover
193040828San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1930. <p>Pullman Jana. Aesop. The subtyl historyes and fables of Esope. Translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe by William Caxton . . . No. 145 of 200 copies. 8 167pp. Woodcut initials and illustrations by Valenti Angelo 1897-1982 hand-illuminated by the artist. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1930. 230 x 160 mm. Custom binding by Jana Pullman of the Western Slope Bindery consisting of tan crushed morocco decorated with paint and colored onlays reproducing two of the book's illustrations; boxed. Very fine. </p> <p> An attractive example of Ms. Pullman's work. </p> . Grabhorn Press unknown
191273696xxix 1 1-224 pages colour illustrated tipped-in frontispiece illustrated title illustrations throughout 13 colour plates and 53 line illustrations signed by Arthur Rackham forwarded by G. K. Chesterton limited to 1450 copies this no. 534 Published by William Heinemann hardcover
1912187472London: William Heinemann 1912. Fables and fairy tales Signed limited edition number 379 of 1450 copies signed by the artist. It is also the first edition of this translation by Vernon Jones. "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form which is after all the basic device of the morality is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.' Rackham's genius is such that it bridges the two and carries the didactic fable into the realm of fairy story and lends to the imaginative world of fairies a tangible and convincing reality" Gettings pp. 83-84. Quarto. Frontispiece and 12 plates all in colour and tipped to brown art paper with tissue guards captioned in brown as issued 19 full-page black and white illustrations line drawings in the text. Original white cloth spine and front cover lettered and pictorially stamped in gilt top edge gilt others uncut. Bookplate of Cecily Mary Severne 1889-1981. Spine toned light soiling to cloth endpapers browned occasional foxing. A very good copy. Riall p. 111. Fred Gettings Arthur Rackham 1976. hardcover
191257786London:: William Heinemann 1912. First edition. publisher's gilt white cloth in publisher's plain paper wrapper neatly titled in ms. on spine by a former owner. Slight bump to one corner and the slightest of soiling to the white cloth; light foxing to endsheets; some shallow chipping and use to the wrapper; a very attractive copy. . Folio. With frontispiece and twelve color tipped-in plates by Arthur Rackham and text illustrations in black and white. A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones. With an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. William Heinemann, hardcover
190939157London: Hodder & Stoughtond 1909. Very good plus. First edition out of series copy of this large paper edition of Detmold's beautifully illustrated interpretation of Aesop's fables with an original watercolor on parchment signed by Detmold tipped in. In his vibrant and stylish illustrations for this limited edition of Aesop's Fables Edward Detmold exhibits aesthetic influences drawn from a variety of sources including Japanese and Chinese paintings Art Nouveau and classical Western art. This copy is supplemented with an original watercolor by Detmold apparently an early iteration of an illustration of a redshank chick that would appear in his circa 1912 BOOK OF BABY BIRDS. 12.5'' x 10.25''. Original white gilt pictorial cloth. Top edge gilt other edges machine deckle. 25 tipped-in color plates. Unpaginated. Bookplate of Sir Francis Carruthers Gould to front pastedown. Original Detmold watercolor on parchment tipped onto verso of front flyleaf; likely an artist's copy no limitation page present. Binding with light bumping to corners and spine ends a few tiny spots of soil to rear; spine sunned. Watercolor with margins marked-up for framing. Endpapers with mild toning leaves with occasional tiny spots of soil or foxing. Sound with vibrant colors. Hodder & Stoughtond unknown
1931159579Paris: Harrison of Paris 1931. In the original slipcase with the elusive paper-knife First Calder edition limited issue number 262 of 595 copies on Auvergne paper from a total edition of 665 scarce retaining both the slipcase and the paper-knife. The text of the present edition is based Roger L'Estrange's ground-breaking translation of Aesop's Fables 1692. Harrison of Paris was founded by publisher and heiress Barbara Harrison Wescott 1904-1977 and art patron and curator Monroe Wheeler 1899-1988 in 1930. Wheeler designed this book the pale blue covers of which were made from schoolchildren's aprons Becker p. 62. The illustrator Alexander Calder came from a long line of sculptors and first took up printmaking after moving to Paris in 1926 where he befriended Marcel Duchamp Fernand Leger Joan Miró and Piet Mondrian. Quarto. Illustrated throughout by Alexander Calder. Original light blue paper-covered boards front cover lettered in dark blue with Calder illustration edges untrimmed endleaves uncut. With the original paper knife loosely inserted. Housed in the original red card chemise and slipcase. A touch of foxing to wrappers faint offsetting from paper-knife on half-title. A near-fine copy a little wear to slipcase. David P. Becker Drawings for Book Illustration 1980. hardcover
