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2015ZB1153927Easton Press 2015. Limited to 800 numbered copies gilt-stamped full cream colored leather LIKE NEW in a very good slipcase that has one tiny abrasion to its edge and faint soiling to a few small areas. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Easton Press hardcover
1823962P14Newcastle; London: E. Walker; Longman and Co 1823. Leather. Fine. 9" by 5.5"; 9.5" by 6.5". Thomas Bewick. A finely bound edition of Bewick's Aesop a lovely copy complete with his woodcuts and a facsimile thumbprint receipt. Smartly bound in a half morocco binding with patterned paper to the boards with renewed endpapers in a custom cloth clamshell bound by Eric Sweet in April 2001. Clamshell is in a fine condition.Facsimile receipt leaf to the front with the facsimile thumbprint of Bewick. This is copy number 829 with this receipt. Pages have been washed presenting an uncommonly bright copy of this sought after work.The fables of Aesop here with the important woodcuts of Bewick.Aesop's Fables is a selection of fables generally attributed to the Ancient Greek storyteller Aesop who lived around 620 BCE-564 BCE. The fables are moral tales that guide in religious and secular aspects of life following adventure of many different creatures.Illustrated with a vignette title and a woodcut head-piece to each fable alongside tail-pieces by Thomas Bewick. Collated complete though the endpapers have been renewed. Bewick's woodcuts of 'Fables' is one of his best known works and spent almost his entire creative career producing various editions of illustrated Aesop the first of which was published in 1776.Bound by Eric Sweet a keen collector of private press and fables. He studied at the Brighton College of Art before moving to London to work as a lettering artist and typographer for advertising agencies later becoming the head of Birmingham School of Printing. Sweet's bindings are unique and striking reflecting the topics of the volumes in distinctive style. In a half morocco binding with patterned paper to the boards with renewed endpapers in a custom cloth clamshell bound by Eric Sweet. Externally fine. A couple of very light marks to the front board. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with a few very light handling marks. Clamshell is in a fine condition. Fine E. Walker; Longman and Co hardcover
1820964P39Newcastle; London: S. Hodgson for Emerson Charnley; Baldwin Cradock and Joy 1820. Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 5". Thomas Bewick; John Bewick. The Bewick brother's edition of Aesop complete with their iconic woodcuts of the fables. Thomas and John Bewick's edition of Aesop's 'Fables'.Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved title four portrait plates and woodcut vignettes throughout. This edition includes a memoir and a descriptive catalogue of the works of the Bewick brothers. Aesop's Fables is a selection of fables generally attributed to the ancient Greek Aesop. The fables are moral tales that guide in religious and secular aspects of life.Thomas Bewick spent almost his entire creative career producing various editions of illustrated 'Aesop's Fables' the first of which was published in 1776. Bewick was an illustrator known for his fine illustrations for books illustrating many natural history works such as 'A History of British Birds' and 'A History of Quadrupeds'. He is known for popularising the practice of printing illustrations using wood producing high-quality illustrations at a lower price. In a rebacked half calf binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally generally smart. Boards are a little discoloured and rubbed. Minor bumping to the extremities. Light marks to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots. Very Good S. Hodgson for Emerson Charnley; Baldwin Cradock and Joy hardcover
1835962Z25Halifax: William Milner 1835. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 5" by 3". None stated. A pocket sized edition of Samuel Croxall's noted edition of Aesop's fables smarty bound in quarter calf and adorned with many wood engravings. A nineteenth century edition of Samuel Croxall's edition. Illustrated with an engraved title page and over one hundred wood engraved vignettes throughout. Lacking the folding frontispiece. A charming collection of fables credited to Aesop a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. This edition was translated and written by Samuel Croxall and is notable for its addition of his 'instructions' to the end of each fable which taught the reader how to apply the lessons of the fables to every day life.Bound in quarter calf with paper to the boards Endpapers and blanks renewed. Bound in quarter calf with paper to the boards Endpapers and blanks renewed. Externally excellent with minimal rubbing to the extremities. Internally lacking frontispiece otherwise firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages with only the odd minor spot and handling mark. Very Good Indeed William Milner hardcover
1727123608London: impensis Societatis Stationariorum 1727. Leatherbound. Very good. 14 176 p. 16 cm. Title vignette and decorations. Full leather. Respined with repaired corners. New endpapers. Title page discoloured at edges with an ink signature. <br/><br/>Title continues: "Nunc demùm ex Collatione Optimorum Exemplarium ab infinitis penè Mendis repurgatae; Unà cum nonnullis Variorum Authorum Fabulis adjectis. Et Indice Correctiori praefixo." Whether the legendary Greek fabulist Aesop really existed remains a fascinating mystery. He may have been a slave and storyteller in ancient Greece or merely a legend. The series of fables that bear his name however have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted. This early 18th-century Latin language collection was produced by the Company of Stationers. impensis Societatis Stationariorum hardcover
17042307136R. Sare 1704. 4th. very good. 4th edition corrected and amended as stated on title page. Very good condition. Some restoration to front and rear gutter with paper tape. Frontispiece of man with animals attached to verso of front free end paper. Plate in front of Sir Roger L'Estrange is missing. Small piece of paper missing at top of front paste-down browning to edges of front and rear paste-down and to end papers. R. Sare unknown
179368118London:: Printed for John Stockdale 4th June 1793. old diced calf with extra gilt spines expertly rebacked retaining the original spines but with all four gilt-lettered spine labels absent; all edges gilt. . The line containing the date of publication is trimmed in Vol. I but not Vol. II. A few minor smudges to text; light scuffing to leather; both volumes tight and sound. 8vo. 110 Fables each with an engraved illustration plus two engraved title pages with vignettes. Brunet I 103. Printed for John Stockdale, hardcover
1788WAS38893J.F. and C. Rivington et al. London 1788. Good: moderate overall wear to binding; small piece torn from margin of C3 affecting approximately 10 letters gathering P partially sprung. fourteenth Edition 6 3/4 x 4 inches xxxiv 329 7 index pages contemporary calf with red morocco spine label Includes engraved frontispiece and 196 woodcut illustrations each measuring 2 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches in pagination. Neat ink owner inscription dated 1796 on front free endpaper. J.F. and C. Rivington, et al., London unknown
1949021687London: Gaberbocchus Press Limited 1949. First Edition. Softcover. Very mild soiling to covers. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Franciszka Themerson. Illustrated wraps with self-dustwrapper 8" x 10" printed in red and black. Copy #249 of 400 printed on a hand press and illustrated by Franciszka Themerson SIGNED by her with an ORIGINAL SELF-PORTRAIT. Also with a spurious signature of Aesop. Laid in is a compliments slip with the handwritten note by Themerson: "one of the very last copies/sorry it's rather dirty." <br/><br/> Gaberbocchus Press Limited paperback
1926288630Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel 1926. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Celia M. Fiennes. Translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange. Wood engraved illustrations by Celia M. Fiennes. 94 pages. Tall 8vo linen-backed brown boards uncut edges. Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press 1926. Limited Edition - number 267 of 325 copies. A fine copy lacking the dust wrapper.<br/> <br/> One of 350 numbered copies.<br/> <br/> Golden Cockerel unknown
1800366475Paris: Chez Batilliot frères 1800. Folded engraved half-title with double page frontispiece and engraving facing title 60 numbered pages of engravings. Text and illustrations printed within borders. Last page of text is a publisher's list of books. 66 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Contemporary mottled calf with gilt scroll border red spine label. Minor rubbing. Very good plus. Folded engraved half-title with double page frontispiece and engraving facing title 60 numbered pages of engravings. Text and illustrations printed within borders. Last page of text is a publisher's list of books. 66 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Chez Batilliot frères unknown
201654215Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 2016. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. Detmold Edward. Large quarto 12" x 9-3/4". 208pp. Light tan leather elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt. A.e.g. Housed in publisher's matching cloth slipcase. Illustrated with all the original 25 stunning color illustrations that bring these timeless characters to life. This now out-of-print facsimile edition is limited to 800 copies. A fine as new copy still in publisher's shrinkwrap and the original shipping box. <br /> <br /> "The Fables of Aesop is perhaps Detmold's greatest masterpiece." Publisher. The Easton Press hardcover
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
170889232Printed for R. Sare A. and F Churchil D. Brown T. Goodwin M. Wotton F Nicho January 1708. Hardcover. Very Good. both volumes tight and clean except that volume 2 has cracks to spine and heavily browned first and last pages Printed for R. Sare, A. and F Churchil, D. Brown, T. Goodwin, M. Wotton, F Nicho hardcover
177750340<p>This 1777 Venetian edition of Aesopi Phrygis et aliorum fabulae quorum nomina sequens pagella indicabit printed by Bartholommei Occhi contains a collection of classical fables attributed to Aesop presented in Latin. These moral and allegorical tales have circulated since antiquity and remained widely read through successive editions across Europe. This example includes numerous in-text engravings accompanying the text. Good condition quarter leather and hardcover boards showing heavy wear binding intact pages and engravings generally clean with occasional spotting and age toning. 16mo single volume. Collation: 264 pp. Illustrations: numerous in-text engravings. Edition: 1777. Item number: #50340. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.</p> Bartholommei Occhi hardcover
1993mon0000031771HMSO 1993-01-01. Paperback. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Clean copy sound binding. HMSO paperback
1856194703London John Murray 1856. 1856. "New Edition." Small 8vo. 203 fables. 12 page author's introduction. More than 100 illustrations designed by John Tenniel. Index. Modern 3/4 gilt stamped tan calf over marbled boards spine with raised bands and gilt stamped green morocco label matching marbled endpapers glazed edges. Fine. 148 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Printed by Bradbury and Evans. Hardcover. Fine. London, John Murray, 1856. hardcover
19285422London: Ernest Benn. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1928. Hardcover. No signatures. Boards protected in loose-fitting non-adhesive plastic jacket. ; Number 45 of an edition of 50 numbered copies printed on hand-made paper and specially bound. vi 52 pages. Blue boards with vellum spine. Gilt border decoration on front board. Page dimensions: 255 x 195mm. Top page edges gilt. Selected contents: A Fox and a Raven; A Lion and a Mouse; A Dog and a Shadow; A Sheep and a Crow; A Smith and his Dog; A Man and a Satyr; A Bull and a Ram; A Bat Birds and Beasts; A Wolf in a Sheep's Skin; Death and an Old Man. ; 4to . Ernest Benn hardcover
1730ABC_45416Venice & Bassano: Jo. Antonius Remondinus 1730. Full calf 2-5 lines ruled in blind on both covers. 12mo. Title-page framed in double lines with woodcut printers device; some woodcut initials typographical head- and tail pieces and typographical borders also the 76 woodcuts ca. 42 x 55 mm. are all framed in a typographical border and are partly after Bernard Salomon partly after Nicolaus and Gerardus Jansen van Kampen. Elegant edition of de Dorpius redaction of the Aesop fables. All Latin 349 fables in prose are printed in one column each with a Adfabulation. Our edition is a reprint of the Brescia edition of 1623 Bodemann 64.1 with woodcuts after those in the 1623 edition but somewhat enlarged. Our copy is an undated variant of Bodemann 64.2: identical title and imprint etc. dated 1743 printing error for 1734. Most of the woodcuts not all! in our edition are less worn down than in the 1734 edition see nr. 36.With two 19th-cent. German ownerships entries on first fly-leaf. Some pages in the beginning slightly cropped some margins repaired. Spine slightly damaged.l Bodemann 64. 2 variant see also 64.1 & 31.1; not in Fabulae docet. Jo. Antonius Remondinus, unknown
1805ABC_45450Lyon: J. Ayné 1805. Half vellum over boards covered with marbled paper. spine with red title label lettered in gold green painted edges. 12mo. With a full-page woodcut portrait 100 x 68 mm. of Aesop woodcut vignette a fisherman on the titles and 225 woodcuts ca. 38 x 66 illustrating the 225 fables; woodcut head- and tailpieces. 2 parts in 1 volume. Augmented nicely illustrated re-edition of the editions of 1764 and 1787 printed by Richard Lallemant in Rouen Bodemann 113.1-2; see also the re-editions: nrs. 57 and 60. As in these editions also in our edition there are the 225 fables of Aesop in French prose with the quatrains by the French writer and dramaturge Isaac Benserade 1612-1691. All the fables are illustrated by a woodcut rather rudely after the series of Bernard Salomon and Marcus Gheeraerts. The Vie dEsop is not illustrated. Library stamp on first fly-leaf.l Cf. Bodemann 113.1-2. J. Ayné, hardcover
137045Paris: Michel Brunet 1703. 2 vols. 16mo 6½ x 4¼ ins. Rebound in later half calf on marbled paper-laid boards spines gilt ruled in six compartments with gilt lettered labels blue sprinkled edges a little rubbed at edges of boards - otherwise a VG set. Pp. xx cxxxv 1 287 3 blank & vi lxiv 364 4 table 4 blank titles printed in red and black with 117 woodcuts and vignettes in text front and rear endpapers lightly tanned at edges; previous owners' engraved card on front paste-downs and neat inscriptions and scribbles on title pages in contemporary hand. French text. Paris: Michel Brunet, 1703 unknown
1869962F22London: Cassell Petter and Galpin 1869 . First edition. Leather. Good Only. 11" by 8.5". Ernest Griset. The very scarce first edition of J. B. Rundell's 'revised and re-written' edition of the fables of Aesop featuring the striking illustrations of painter and illustrator Ernest Griset. The very scarce first Rundell edition in a signed Riviere full calf binding.Illustrated with ninety-three full page and vignette illustrations from Griset the vast majority of which have been neatly hand coloured by a prior owner. Collated complete.Aesop's Fables are a collection of brief moral tales attributed to a storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece around the 6th century BCE. These tales typically feature animals as characters who embody human traits and behaviours teaching practical life lessons through their interactions. Classic fables like "The Tortoise and the Hare" "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" and "The Ant and the Grasshopper" use simple narratives to convey enduring wisdom about virtues such as perseverance honesty and hard work.With eight pages of advertisements to the rear.With the publisher's cloth laid down to the blanks at the rear. With a custom chemise and clamshell box.With the bookplates of Edward Dean Richmond and the Brother Julian Collection to the front pastedown.Griset specialized in animal illustrations making him a fitting choice to illustrate Aesop's works. In a full calf Riviere signed binding with gilt detailing to back strip and gilt dentelles. Front board detached but present. Rear joint starting to head but firmly held. Bookplates to front pastedown. Housed in a custom cloth chemise and slipcase. Internally firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned with instances of light spotting throughout. Majority of illustrations neatly hand coloured by a prior owner. With the publisher's cloth laid down to the blanks at the rear. Good Only Cassell, Petter and Galpin hardcover
1976962Y36London: The Scolar Press 1976. Cloth. Near Fine. 11" by 7.5". Not Stated. A superb copy of this limited edition facsimile of William Caxton's edition of Aesop's Fables complete with chemise and slipcase. A very scarce limited edition facsimile of William Caxton's 1484 edition of Aesop's fables. Limited to 500 copies of which this is number 317. Reproduced from the copy in the Royal Library Windsor Castle. With an introduction by Edward Hodnett.In the original rough cloth binding with leather spine label. This copy is also handsomely presented in uniform chemise inlaid with decorative marbled paper and slipcase both with paper spine labels. Caxton was an English merchant diplomat writer and most importantly thought to be the first person to introduce the printing press into England in 1476. His was the first translation of these classic fables and is complete with a series of woodcuts throughout. Chemise and slipcase provided by Eric Sweet a keen collector of private press and fables. He studied at the Brighton College of Art before moving to London to work as a lettering artist and typographer for advertising agencies later becoming the head of Birmingham School of Printing. Sweet's bindings are unique and striking reflecting the topics of the volumes in distinctive style.Loosely inserted are a series of materials including a postcard informing Eric Sweet of this book a dated written receipt and newsletters from The Scolar and Alliance Record. In the original rough cloth binding with leather spine label. Together with uniform chemise and slipcase both laid with paper spine labels. Externally excellent with only minor pink marks to the front board. Chemise and slipcase are also excellent with a couple marks to the chemise spine label. Internally firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine The Scolar Press hardcover
1949GABERBOC001430Gaberbocchus Press London. 1949. First edition. Quarto. 36 pages. Seven full-page illustrations by Franciszka Themerson the co-founder of the Gaberbocchus Press. Printed in red and black this being the second production of the press and one of only two to be hand-printed. Card wrappers with fold-over paper covers in the French style the cover design incorporating the embossed figure of a woman with an eagle's head.Number 4 of 400 copies numbered and signed by Themerson and with the ''counterfeit signature of Aesop''. Next to her signature the artist has sketched a small self-portrait.Front cover very slightly marked. Inside the covers the glue used in producing the book has cause some staining. Very good indeed. Gaberbocchus Press, London. unknown
1708ABC_47441A Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Mortier 1708. Marbled half-morocco binding with gold tooling to spine five raised bands with title in gold second compartment. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece showing Aesop standing on a gallery holding an armillary sphere hunting horn and spear surrounded by a mixed crowd including children with a group of wild and domestic animals standing and lying below 117 half-page engravings 65 x 8 cm for the 117 numbered Aesop fables initials endpieces. Two parts in one volume Rare and beautifully illustrated edition of 117 Aesop's fables in French each with an extensive discussion of the moral followed by a four-line verse by Jean Baptiste Morvan de Bellegarde. He adds French prose translations of further fables without illustrations: 18 numbered fables by the Renaissance Italian humanist poet and scholar Francesco Filelfo or Philelphus 1398-1481 translated from the Latin verse; 37 fables based on Aesop by Gabrias and Avienus translated from the Latin verse; two longer fables: the "Battle of the cats and the rats" and the "Battle of the rats and the frogs"; five Aesop "tales" taken from Plato's dialogue Protagoras; six numbered "poetical fables" with Olympian Gods as protagonists; and finally three more "tales" the first from Herodotus and the last from Gerbellius.Light wear to binding some pencil notes to endpaper and throughout repairs to title page not affecting the text. With en exlibris of Georges Jal.l STCN 334560683 1 copy Bodemann 97.1 Landwehr Emblem & fable books F062 WorldCat 42461403 3 copies. Chez Pierre Mortier, hardcover