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18292499London: J. M'Gowan and Son 1829. Two volumes in One 140x108mm half black cloth marbled sides worn to foot of spine vii-xxi 263pp and Vol. II iii-vii 311pp.Aquatint plates 100 unusually the plates are bound 51 49 at the end of each volume. Title-pages to both volumes in facsimile. Volume I starts with Preface and thus seems to lack the contents list. Volume II lacks only the title as contents pages are complete. Name stamp to margin of Preface edge browned and some fingering & soiling a few leaves with edge wear with 3 leaves with 3mm tears to blank margins only. A well-loved and well-used Aesop with charming AQUATINT PLATES. Very scarce with Oxford the only copy of this printing noted in British libraries - McGowan was printer as well as publisher and his Windmill Street address is given at the foot of the last page of each volume. J. M'Gowan and Son unknown
18292499London: J. M'Gowan and Son 1829. Two volumes in One 140x108mm half black cloth marbled sides worn to foot of spine vii-xxi 263pp and Vol. II iii-vii 311pp.Aquatint plates 100 unusually the plates are bound 51 49 at the end of each volume. Title pages to both volumes in facsimile. Volume I starts with Preface thus seems to lack the contents list. Volume II lacks only the title as contents pages are complete. Name stamp to margin of Preface edge browned and some fingering & soiling a few leaves with edge wear with 3 leaves with 3mm tears to blank margins only. A well loved and well used Aesop with charming AQUATINT PLATES. Very scarce with Oxford the only copy of this printing noted in British libraries - McGowan was printer as well as publisher and his Windmill Street address is given at the foot of the last page of each volume. <br/><br/> J. M'Gowan and Son hardcover books
1692049<b>Folio 8-1/2 by 13 inches contemporary full brown calf Skillfully rebacked with blind-stamped spine raised bands red morocco spine label. First edition of former censor Roger L Estrange s classic version of Aesop s Fables with copper-engraved frontispiece portrait of L Estrange and fine copperplate frontispiece of Aesop. In 1690 John Locke was the first to suggest Aesop as a beginning book for children. Shortly thereafter Tory pamphleteer and onetime Surveyor of the Press Roger L Estrange was commissioned to produce this edition of fables likely the first compiled expressly for children. He included many other fabulists besides Aesop notably a selection from La Fontaine within 20 years of the first appearance of any of his fables in French. It is highly probable that this was their earliest appearance in English Muir 24. Simple and somewhat racy in style L Estrange s edition was continuously reprinted helping to popularize both Aesop and the genre of fables among children. The most extensive collection of fables in existence this compilation also includes a biography of Aesop an alphabetical table of the fables and fables by Barlandus Anianus Abstemius Poggius and La Fontaine DNB. Wing A706. Hodnett Aesop in England 63. A very attractive copy. </b> R. Sare, et al. hardcover
1761323871Birmingham: Baskerville 1761. hardcover. good. Small 8vo 4 lxxvii 204 pages 28 page index. Copper engraved frontispiece and engraved vignette on the title page. 17 full-page copper engravings and 5 half-page illustrations. Contemporary leather boards well rubbed and crackled with early re-backing in similar brown calf with morocco spine label front cover neatly reattached. Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville for R. and J.Dodsley 1761. Scattered foxing and early previous owner's name on title page.<br/> <br/> The first of Baskerville's books to be issued with illustrations.<br/> <br/> Baskerville unknown
1592ABC_45202Venice 1592. 12mo. Niccolò Polo Contemporary limp vellum with overlapping fore edge. With a printers device with an ornamental frame on the title-page and 187 small woodcut illustrations. 282 6 pp. Rare Latin edition of Aesops fables with 187 woodcut illustrations based on the first illustrated edition of the "Aesopus Dorpii" to be published in Italy by Dominicus Nicolinus at Venice in 1563 Bodemann 31.3; Thoen 135. This Latin prose collection of fables compiled by Martinus Dorpius 1485-1525 a humanist teaching in Louvain was first published in 1509 at Antwerp without illustrations. The Dorpius compilation proved very important for the diffusion of Aesop as a school textbook during the following centuries and went through at least two hundred editions to the mid-19th century mostly in small formats.With "Aesopi" written in ink on the foot edge. The binding is somewhat soiled and shows traces of use the work has been rebound with modern endpapers. A small hole in the margin running through the first half of the book. Otherwise in good condition.l EDIT16 CNCE 407 1 copy; ICCU same copy; USTC 807915 same copy; WorldCat 3 copies; cf. Bodemann 31.1-3 1556 Lyons 1561 Paris & 1563 Venice eds.; Fabula docet ; Paul Thoen Aesopus Dorpii essai sur lEsope Latin des temps modernes in: Humanistica Lovaniensia 19 1970 pp. 241-289 nos. 112 118 131 135 ca. 1550 recté post 1634 Venice 1554 Lyons 1561 Paris & 1563 Venice eds. hardcover
1856346386Boston: J. Buffum 1856. 96pp. 12mo 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches 9 x 7 cm. Publisher's brown cloth gilt. Very Good. 96pp. 12mo 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches 9 x 7 cm. inscribed on the front free endpaper by John Hay "Ellie Hay/from her Brother/John/1857" and on the following page the signature of "Miss Helen J.ulia Hay 1857 June 1." Helen Hay Whitney was named after her.<br /> <br /> Likely first edition thus . Publisher's brown cloth gilt. ; 96 pp. woodcut illustrations. Binding a hair worn the stamping dull internally some toning. <br /> <br /> A presentation copy of this delightful little juvenile inscribed by the young age 18 or 19 depending on the date of gift John Hay. At this time Hay had graduated from Brown and was working for his father Milton Hay. Lincoln had offices next door and after 1860 Hay became an ardent supporter. He would go on to become Lincoln's secretary and later one of his most eminent biographers and in time Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt one of the most powerful figures on the American political scene. J. Buffum unknown
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
1761962Z9Birmingham: John Baskerville 1761. First edition. Leather. Near Fine. 7" by 4.5". None stated. The renowned first Robert Dodsley edition of Aesop's fables published by Baskerville adorned with wood engravings and beautifully bound in vellum and crushed morocco with a uniform cloth slipcase and chemise. The first Dodsley edition published by Baskerville. Illustrated with a monochrome wood engraved frontispiece monochrome wood engraved vignettes and sixteen wood engraved plates. Collated complete.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.A charming collection of fables credited to Aesop a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. This collection is separated into three 'books' and edited with an account of the life of Aesop by Robert Dodsley. Dodley's edition was notable as the animals spoke in character such as the lion speaking in a royal manner adding personality to the creatures. His addition also included fables from ancient sources and new stories written by himself and other notable writers. This edition is also notable for being printed by Baskerville a printer known for inventing wove paper and his renowned typeface. Bound in modern crushed quarter morocco with vellum to the boards with endpapers and blanks renewed and a cloth chemise and slipcase. Bound in modern crushed quarter morocco with vellum to the boards with endpapers and blanks renewed and a cloth chemise and slipcase. Externally lovely with only very slight marks to the vellum. Internally firmly bound with bright washed and generally clean pages with only the odd minor spot and owner's signature to the title page. Minor archival tape repairs to the rear few pages. The Slip and chemise are lovely. Near Fine John Baskerville 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
16435227Trevigi: Girolamo Righettini 1643. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. 12mo. With 137 small woodcuts in text illustrating the fables including some repeats. 2 parts in 1 volume. Rare edition of the Italian translation by the philosopher Giulio Landi 1498-1579 of Aesop's fables and the Life of Aesop including no less than 400 animal fables some collected from other sources. The fables are illustrated with numerous small anonymous woodcuts that appeared for the first time in 1569 in the fables collected by Cesare Pavesi and became very popular through Landis translations of Aesop beginning in 1580. They have been attributed to Johann Krieger a German working in Italy where he was known as Giovanni Chrieger. Several woodcuts are repeated especially at the end for the fables taken from other sources. All fables close with a moral here called "Sentenza" intended for the instruction and amusement of the youth.With 2 holes in the last few pages some water stains throughout and some restorations with now discoloured tape. With the binding slightly stained partly detached from the bookblock and with 2 holes in the back board.l WorldCat 2 copies; cf. Fabula docet 14. Girolamo Righettini, unknown
1667WRCLIT79851Amsterdam: Johannem Janssonium à Waesberge & viduam Elizei Weyerstraet 1667. 62462204pp. Octavo 18.5 x 12 cm. Contemporary vellum short-title in manuscript on spine. Engraved frontis by Christopher Ganes and 103 engraved half-page illustrations in text. Vellum somewhat handsoiled and darkened bookplate frontis trimmed close along fore- edge short marginal tear in H2 without loss otherwise very good. First and only printing of this well- illustrated edition of the adaptations by the Latin fabulist Phaedrus of the Greek fables of Aesop as edited by Johannes Laurentius. Two engravings at pages 133 and 194 have been supplanted by other tipped in engravings. The Fables are followed by an "index vocabularum" and an "index rerum & verborum." BRUNET IV:588. Landwehr EMBLEM BOOKS Low Countries F143. Johannem Janssonium à Waesberge & viduam Elizei Weyerstraet hardcover books
172816041Amsterdam, Zacharias Chatelain, 1728. 2 Frontispices (Porträt des Autors von B. Picart und allegorische Musendarstellung mit dem Autor inmitten, von Romeyn de Hooghe), eine Titel-, zwei Kopfvignetten, Titel in rot/schwarz, 19 Bll., 123 SS., 2 Bll., SS. 141 - 268. 1 Bl., 117 (1) SS., 2 Bll., SS. 119 - 233, 2 Bll., 123 (1) SS., 1 Bl. Kl.-8°, etw. späteres Pergament, Vorsätze erneuert.
154623050Tubingen & Cologne: Ulrichus Morhandum & Martinus Gymnicus 1546. Hardcover. Later half calf rebacked and marbled boards. All edges red. Near fine. 451 Index & Errata on four unnumbered pages. 15.1 x 9.5 cm. 16th century edition printed in Greek and Latin. Included are Homer Ranarum & Murium Pugna 24 pages printed in Greek and Latin; Musaeus Deero et Leandro 26 pages printed in Greek and Latin; Agapeto Eposito Capitum Damononitiorum 44 pages printed in Greek and Latin; Hipp Ivsivrandum 4 pages and 17 pages in Greek. BRUNET II 99. Bound With Clenardus Nicolaus -- Text in Greek and Latin. 380 pages. OCLC 265496015. Both titles printed 1546. From the collection of Broadway producer Crosby Gaige. First title printed within woodcut border with hand coloring plus 17 woodcut decorative initials with some staining. Unidentified inscription on title page F.J. Pith and early signature annotations unidentified stamp Crosby Gaige bookplate. Save for the title and one following leaf the interior contents are pristine. Ulrichus Morhandum & Martinus Gymnicus hardcover
41457Printed for John Stockdale Piccadilly. 2 vols. roy. 8vo. First Edition thus LARGE PAPER with engraved title-vignettes and 110 fine full-page engraved plates; handsomely bound in contemporary full brown diced calf boards with triple frame border enclosing decorative frame all in gilt backs with raised bands ruled in gilt second and fourth compartments lettered and numbered in gilt all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt with a geometrical floral flourish marbled edges gilt doublures marbled endpapers expertly rebacked with old backstrips laid down a splendid crisp and remarkably clean copy in sympathetically restored period binding. WITH THE FINE ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF RAWSON BODDAM CROZIER 1775-1849 ON FRONT PASTE-DOWNS. FIRST EDITION OF THIS SELECTION. Large Paper copies are invariably as here the first issue with uncorrected page numeral 891 on p.198 and issued without Stockdale's later advertisement leaf for his edition of Gay's Fables. This selection comprises 110 fables each illustrated with a superb full-page engraving by Blake Clarke Eastgate Grainger Landseer Stothard and several other artists. Croxall compiled his translation first published in 1722 to rival the well-known version of Roger L'Estrange first published 1692 many times reprinted and prior to Croxall the well-nigh 'standard' text. Croxall accuses his predecessor of Jacobite tendencies but has himself not resisted the temptation to incorporate political overtones into what is primarily a children's book. A SPLENDID COPY OF THE FIRST STOCKDALE EDITION AND SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, hardcover
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, LARGE PAPER, with engraved title-vignettes and 110 fine full-page engraved plates; handsomely bound in contemporary full brown diced calf, boards with triple frame border enclosing decorative frame all in gilt, backs with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and numbered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt with a geometrical floral flourish, marbled edges, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrips laid down, a splendid, crisp and remarkably clean copy in sympathetically restored period binding. WITH THE FINE ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF RAWSON BODDAM CROZIER [1775-1849] ON FRONT PASTE-DOWNS. FIRST EDITION OF THIS SELECTION. Large Paper copies are invariably [as here] the first issue with uncorrected page numeral [891] on p.198, and issued without Stockdale's later advertisement leaf for his edition of Gay's Fables. This selection comprises 110 fables, each illustrated with a superb full-page engraving by Blake, Clarke, Eastgate, Grainger, Landseer, Stothard and several other artists. Croxall compiled his translation (first published in 1722) to rival the well-known version of Roger L'Estrange (first published 1692, many times reprinted and prior to Croxall the well-nigh 'standard' text). Croxall accuses his predecessor of Jacobite tendencies, but has himself not resisted the temptation to incorporate political overtones into what is primarily a children's book. A SPLENDID COPY OF THE FIRST STOCKDALE EDITION AND SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
1619ABC_45381Genève or Lyon 1619. Ad 1: 16mo and ad 2: 12mo. Jean de Tournes Contemporary overlapping vellum. Ad 1 with the woodcut portrait of Aesop in a roundel on the title page and 61 woodcuts ca. 3.5 x 4.5 cm in the text illustrating the fables of Aesop most after Bernard Salomon but 22 from another series. Woodcut initials and ornaments. Text in two columns: Greek left and Latin right. Ad 2 with printers device on title page and some woodcut initials. 2 volumes bound as 1. 410 6; 8 168 pp. Ad 1: One of the many Aesop editions based on the famous first illustrated edition by Jean de Tournes Lyon 1571 which was a landmark in humanistic scholarship and printing with woodcuts by Bernard Salomon Bodemann 29.1. The De Tournes family moved to Geneva in 1585 to escape religious persecution as Hugenots. In 1619 Jean de Tournes III sold his house in Lyon to the printer Guichard Juliéron who probably issued the present edition in Lyon under the name of Jean de Tournes.Ad 2: A rare collection of Greek poetry and other works by Theognis and Phocylides ideas and thoughts of Pythagoras and the mottos of Solon. The editor and translator Fredericus Sylberg 1536-1596 was a classical philologist working as a corrector and editor for the publisher Henr. Commelin at Heidelberg. Ad 1: with owners entry on the front pastedown: "Sum ex libris Hugonis Suchier Ritelii = Rinteln 1881". There are more than a dozen errors in the pagination but both books are nevertheless complete. Some woodcuts slightly worn boards slightly damaged. Ad 2: minor water stains pp. 115-158.l Ad 1: cf. Bodeman 29.2. Ad 2: STCN 2 copies. hardcover
1699ABC_45393Utrecht: widow of Jurriaen Poolsom 1699. Marbled wrappers. Small 8vo. With woodcut of a wolf sitting next to a tree 3.5 x 6 cm on the title page and 47 woodcuts in the text ca. 5 x 6 cm. Rare Greek and Latin school edition of Aesop with the same contents and 47 woodcuts as the 1685 edition published by Jurriaen Poolsum in Utrecht Bodemann 65.4 one of the many editions based on the original Heinsius school edition of 1626 published by Johannes Maire in Leiden with a woodcut series by Christoffel van Sichem II ca. 1577-1658. Landwehr counts 15 editions between 1626 and 1727. The unsigned woodcuts in the present edition closely follow the Van Sichem series.The Aesop fables are printed in two columns with the Greek left and Latin right prose texts; Avianuss Latin verse rendition of the fables follows in one column. The added Brachomyomachia or Ranarum & murium pugna a spoof of Homer here attributed to him as in many early editions gives the Greek verse text left and Latin verse translation right on facing pages illustrated with 6 woodcuts.First quire loose part of the last leaf torn out.l Fabula docet 16 p. 99; Landwehr Emblem & fable books F025 cf. p. 312; STCN 2 copies; cf. Bodemann 65.1-5 related eds. widow of Jurriaen Poolsom, unknown
63949London: Printed for John Stockdale 4th June 1793. FIRS EDITION WITH ISSUE WITH THE LONG 'S'. 2 vols. Large 8vo. 26.5 x 16 cm. pp.lxv189; xi248. Contemporary polished tan calf by Morrell sides ruled with two gilt fillets intersecting roundels at corners spines with raised bands and richly gilt-decorated compartments complementary red and tan morocco labels marbled endpapers and edges. 112 copper engravings comprising 2 engraved titles each with vignette illustration and 110 engraved plates by various engravers including Skelton and Barrett J Chapman Clarke J. Smith and according to Bentley William Blake albeit unsigned. Some light shelfwear to exterior contents with some occasional toning and light marginal foxing generally a very good set in handsome leather bindings. In his comprehensive study Blake Books G. E. Bentley mentions that this edition was advertised at the end of the 1793 Stockdale edition of John Gay's Fables as containing Blake engravings although Blake did not sign any of the plates. Brunet I 103; Bentley Blake Books 460 London: Printed for John Stockdale, 4th June, 1793. hardcover
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
1553104563Near Fine. 1553. Hardcover. Apud Inclytam Granatam. minse Februario. M D. LIII. 1553 Bound in modern green gilt stamped morocco. Engraved portal design title page. Fables and all text in latin. small 8vo. 32 pp. Near fine. . 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
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
8748<p>Copy number 50 of 750 copies of the limited edition signed by the illustrator. Edward Detmold was the longest surviving of the two tragic Detmold twins who had attracted the attention of artists such as Edward Burne-Jones as children and young artists. Edward's brother Maurice had committed suicide in 1908 after producing numerous highly regarded prints at the turn of the century. Edward himself continued to make prints and publish illustrated books until his own suicide in 1957. Animals and birds were their primary subjects and to varying degrees their prints exhibit the clear influence of the Japanese master printmakers.</p><p>Large 4to 305 × 250 mm pp. 154 plus 35 mounted coloured plates. Original white buckram gilt top edge gilt others uncut. Very lightly soiled slight separation between a couple of gatherings of the texblock but tight and secure endpapers slightly toned. An excellent copy.</p> [Henry Stone for] Hodder & Stoughton.
165919381Jean Du Bray 1659 102+IV+712+V+102 pages Fort In-12. 1659. Demi-Cuir titré au dos en lettres dorées (Reliure XIXème). 102+IV+712+V+102 pages. Les Fables de Philelphe sont traduites et moralisées par I. Baudoin. Complet des cent gravures en noir hors-texte concernant les Fables d'Esope Phrygien. Bandeaux lettrines et culs-de-lampe
1690034148Amsterdam: Antoins Michils 1690. Book. Very Good. Full Leather. First Edition. 12mo. The very rare first edition; pp. 3-14 15-360 9. Title page printed in red and black preface Esope in Belle Humeur printed in red and black La Vie D'Esope The life of Aesop; Censure de L'Ordinaire. Numerous woodcut vignette illustrations in the text plus head and tail pieces the first vignette to the La Vie D'Esope page shows Aesop dancing between apes playing stringed instruments and in the background his murder is depicted. There is no frontispiece plate in this copy but otherwise complete. Later Victorian full mottled sheep binding with burgundy title label to the spine; binding very good with a little gentle wear and rubbing. Contents clean and tight; a little edge-wear to the title page which has a small old paper repair to the base a few pages with short edge-tears. A very good copy of the scarce first edition. Antoins Michils Hardcover
