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1775962P1London: J. F. and C. Rivington; et al 1775. Leather. Very Good. 7" by 4"; 8" by 5". Not Stated. Aesop's enduring fables an illustrated edition with ten scenes to each plate including a life of Aesop. In a custom cloth clamshell bound by Eric Sweet in 1998 clamshell is in a near fine condition.The important fables of Aesop.Illustrated with an engraved title and twenty-five plates each of which portrays ten scenes. Collated complete.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 adventures of many different creatures.Including a life of Aesop by Mr. Richardson.Undated dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library.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 full calf binding rebacked in a custom cloth clamshell. Externally smart. Light discolouration and marks to the boards. Minor bumping to the extremities. Internally firmly bound. Pages are age-toned and generally clean. Small chip to the margin of the plate facing page 142 no loss to image. Publisher's label over the imprint to the title page. Ink to the title page. Clamshell is in a near fine condition with only a few light marks. Very Good J. F. and C. Rivington; et al hardcover
1570ABC_45182Leipzig 1570. 8vo. colophon: Ernest Vögelin Blind-tooled red vellum sewn on 3 supports with a hollow back each board with a double frame of double fillets the inner and outer connected with diagonal double fillets the front board with the owners initials and the date in the central field: M E B S 1598. With Vögelins woodcut device on title page scrollwork cartouche with a crucifixion - with a bird representing the Holy Spirit - on the arc of the covenant and symbols of the 4 Evangelists in the corners and 4 woodcut initials 2 series with pictorial decoration. 25 1 blank 342 349-513 32 1 blank pp. Vögelins 1570 Aesop edition a nearly page for page often line for line reprint of his own important 1564 edition including one of the most extensive collections of Aesop fables to that date following but augmenting Camerariuss 1544 Leipzig edition. It contains more than 500 fables collected by the humanist classical scholar Joachim Camerarius Bamberg 1500-Leipzig 1574 who played a decisive role in the German Reformation helped Philip Melanchthon with the composition of the famous Augsburg Confession and published editions of many classical authors. The preface and printers note originally copied the 1564 date from the 1564 edition but in the latter a correction slip changed the date to 1570. One can see in the present copy that the slip was present but it has fallen off. Many copies lack the last printed leaf present here containing only the colophon.Lacking the final blank leaf. Somewhat browned the title page thumbed and the corners of the last few leaves gone not approaching the text but generally in good condition.l USTC 657123; VD16 A516; cf. Bodemann 34.1-2 1565 Plantin Antwerp ed. & 1571 Jean de Tournes Lyon ed. 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.
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
100164o. O. Ars Magna Editorial 2001. Faksimilebd. 33 x 24 cm: 280 Bl.; Kommentarbd.: 376 S. zahlr. Abb. Faksimile.: OLdr. geprägt; Kommentarbd.: OLwd. Deckel des Faks. etwas berieben Rückenschild mit kleiner Fehlstelle sonst tadell. Kommentarband tadell. Commentary by Pedro Badenas Rita de Tata Josefina Planas Text: engl. /spanish.Aesop's Fables translated in latin by Gualterius Anglicus. Gualterus Anglicus Medieval Latin for Walter the Englishman was an Anglo-Norman poet and scribe who produced a seminal version of Aesop's Fables in distichs around the year 1175. With its 146 intensely colored miniatures arranged in frames this fourteenth-century manuscript is a splendid Gothic edition of Aesop's fables. The Latin text in Gothic script adorned with decorated initials and borders tells about animals speaking and behaving like humans. 010 o. O., Ars Magna Editorial, 2001 unknown
1829981Z3London: J. M'Gowan and Son c1829. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 5.5" by 4". None stated. A very scarce two volume set of Aesop's fables adapted for young people and illustrated with fantastic aquatint illustrations and both in contemporary half calf. A very scarce illustrated edition with only one copy held institutionally. Bound in half calf. Illustrated with many unique aquatint illustrations with an engraved title page and fifty plates to 'Vol I' and an engraved frontispiece and forty-eight plates to 'Vol II'. Lacking the frontispiece to 'Volume I'.A two volume complete set.A rare to see illustrated edition of Aesop's renowned fables adapted for young people with instructive applications. This edition features a collection of fantastic and anonymously illustrated plates depicting whimsical portrayals of a frog and mice in armour and many more. Undated dated by copies held institutionally. Bound in half calf with marbled paper to the boards. Externally fading cracking and rubbing to the spines with rubbing to the joints and extremities slight marks to the boards with front joint starting slightly at the head of the front joint. Internally engraved title starting otherwise firmly bound with generally bright pages and occasional light spotting heavier to the plates with the odd closed tear to the extremities of the odd plate or page. Very Good J. M'Gowan and Son hardcover
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
1781962P4London: J. Dodsley 1781. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4"; 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. Robert Dodsley's edition of the fables of Aesop and other eminent fabulists illustrated with engraved head-pieces to each fable. In a custom cloth clamshell in a fine condition.An anthology of the fables of Aesop alongside a selection from other fabulists.Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved title and an engraved head-piece to each fable including a total of one-hundred and fifty-nine head-pieces.Edited by Robert Dodsley a leading bookseller and publisher of the eighteenth century. In a full contemporary tree calf binding in a custom cloth clamshell. Externally smart. Light rubbing to the spine and extremities. Minor bumping to the extremities. A small amount of wear to the front board. Hinges are starting but firm. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean. Closed tear to page 77/78. Clamshell is in a fine condition. Very Good Indeed J. Dodsley hardcover
17936744London: John Stockdale 1793. Two volumes. 112 engraved plates with protective tissue by Thomas Stothard J. Landseer Hunt Medland Lovegrove Skelton Powell Eastgate W. Grainger Clarke L. Chapman A. Smith J. Saunders Audinet et al. Pp. lxi publisher’s ad. leaf 198; xii 248. Large 8vo. original cloth backed marbled paper covered board with printed paper spine labels. Some rubbing light browning to end of volume II and a bit shaken.An excellent untrimmed copy pretty well preserved in the original binding of Stockdale’s well printed and deliciously illustrated Aesop. This is a true first of the great 1793 Stockdale edition with the advertisement leaf for Stockdale’s Gay’s Fables and the misprinted p.891 for p.198 of the first vol. The text is by Samuel Croxall. Booklabels of Carleton Richmond. In the original publisher’s binding John Stockdale hardcover
90809Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 2000. Full Leather. Fine. Complete 12 volume set uniformly bound in full black leather with gilt design lettering and AEG. Moire endpapers silk ribbon. 24 x 16.5 cm. "A note about" laid-in for each volume. Color frontispiece in each. A few small scratches to gilt edges of "Peloponnesian War" & Aristotle's Ethics larger scratch to top gilt edge of "The Odyssey<br /> <br /> <br /> Great condition overall of this set of classic Greek philosophy plays and history. Large set substantial extra charges will be required for international orders. List of titles:<br /> <br /> Aeschylus: The Oresteia 335pp. Translated by Robert Fagles.<br /> <br /> Aesop: The Complete Fables 262pp. Translated by Olivia and Robert Temple. <br /> <br /> Aristophanes: Four Comedies 393pp. Translated by Dudley Fitts. <br /> <br /> Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics 383pp. <br /> Translated by J. A. K. Thomson.<br /> <br /> Euripides: The Bacchae and Medea 451pp. Translated by Philip Vellacott. <br /> <br /> Herodotus: The Histories 622pp. Translated by Aubrey de Selincourt. <br /> <br /> Homer: The Iliad 683pp. Translated by Robert Fagles. <br /> <br /> Homer: The Odyssey 541pp. Translated by Robert Fagles.<br /> <br /> Menander: Plays and Fragments 265pp. Translated by Norma Miller.<br /> <br /> Plato: The Last Days of Socrates Translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant 237pp.<br /> <br /> Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays Antigone Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus 430pp. Translated by Robert Fagles. <br /> <br /> Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War 648pp. translated by Rex Warner. Easton Press unknown
17081514Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier 1708. First Illustrated Edition. Near Fine. 2 vols. bound into one. Small 8vo 5 7/8 x 3.34 inches 150 x 95 mm 12 297 7; 2 287 4 pp. Frontispiece engraving printer devices on title pages and 117 in-text half-page engravings one for each fable engraved by Georg Paul Busch. Cancel on p. 276 fable LXX where wrong image had been printed. Contemporary vellum binding with later ms. title on spine edges speckled in red. Pages bright and clean with some bookseller pencil and ink markings on front and back flyleaves. Vellum a little thumbed but in excellent condition for a book of its age.<br /> <br /> STCN 334560683. A VERY RARE and EARLY EDITION of Aesop translated into French by Jean-Baptiste Morvan de Bellegarde 1649 -1734 a Jesuit priest author of works on ethics religion and education and accompanied by his discussion of the moral of each fable and four lines of verse. The fables are accompanied by a lively depiction of the story by the Berlin copper-plate engraver Georg Paul Busch 1682 - 1759. In Vol. 1 the 78 fables are preceded by "La Vie d'Esope" pp. 1-93 written by the Byzantine Greek monk and scholar Maximus Planudes c. 1260 - c. 1305. Vol. 2 contains fables 79-117 as well as French prose translations of further fables without illustrations: 18 numbered fables by the Renaissance Italian humanist poet and scholar Francesco Filelfo or Philelphus 139-1481 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 including one titled "De l'Origine de l'Amour"; six numbered "poetical fables" with Olympian Gods as protagonists; and finally three more tales the first from Herodotus and the last from Gerbellius. Each volumes includes an index. <br /> Later editions of the book 1736 for example pair two illustrations on one page. Busch's engravings show a certain hand with strong contrasts and dynamic movements. Pierre Mortier unknown
76424Ayn Ediciones S. XV. Ayn Ediciones unknown
1571482551571 (Lyon) Lugduni, Apud Ioan. Tornaesivm (Jean de Tournes), Typogr. Regium (Typographe royal). MDLXXI - 1571 - In-16, 12 x 8,5 x 3,8 cm - Edition Originale - Reliure vélin de récupération avec manque - Dos cassé - Collationné complet des 110 gravures sur bois- 637 pagers + Index (3) manque pages d'index- fortes mouillures - Ex-libris illisibles d l'époque - Envoi rapide et soigné - Réf. 48255
1661003051On Venezia, per Francesco ****, 1661
17011229424to. Amsterdam: Typographia Francisci Halmae 1701. 4to engraved general title letterpress red & black title page with allegorical engraved vignette. 18 full-page copper-engraved plates by Jan van Vianen each featuring six circular images and 38 in-text reproductions engraved decorative initials and head- and tailpieces. With the oversize fold-out engraved portrait of Joannes Gulielmus Prince of Nassau. Later polished calf c.1750 headcap repaired upper hinge repaired. § Phaedrus 15 BC - AD 50 Italy was a "Roman fabulist the first writer to Latinize whole books of fables producing free versions in iambic metre of Greek prose fables then circulating under the name of Aesop." Ency. Brit. This de luxe edition was especially created for the Prince of Nassau profusely illustrated with fine engravings. Dibdin spoke highly of it in his Greek and Latin Classics 4th edition: "I have always considered this as a correct and very sumptuous edition. It is ornamented with a great number of small plates or medallions in which the subject of the fable is very ably and spiritedly executed. The type is peculiarly rich and bold and is hardly equalled by any Dutch edition of a classic." p. 285. Landwehr F163. Typographia Francisci Halmae unknown books
1607009842Lugduni : Apud Petrum Rigaud 1607. Book. Very Good. Leather. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. 412 pps. 3 leafs. 4 1/2" h x 3" w. Title page portrait of Aesop woodcut illustrations in text. "Gabriae Graeci Fabellae XLIII. Batrachomyomachia Homeri hoc est ranarum et murium pugna. Galeomyomachia hoc est felium et murium pugna tragoedia Graeca". Bound in contemporary leather Very Good top cover nearly detached light pencil notations at paste downs. Text in Greek and Latin in opposing columns or pages. SCARCE OCLC locates only the ST GALLER BIBLIOTHEKSNETZ in Switzerland with a copy. Apud Petrum Rigaud 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
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
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
1619ABC_45380Venice 1619. Jo. Baptistam Combus Contemporary vellum. Woodcut printers device on title-page and 92 woodcuts in text. 12mo. 450 4 pp. lacking the last blank. One of the many school editions of the fables of Aesop with the same title at least 8 between 1524 and 1589 some printed in Basel by Froben others in Venice with parallel Greek and Latin text printed on facing pages.A few leaves cut short at two or three places affecting the text upper corner of title-page restored. Otherwise in good condition.l Not in Bodemann; Fabula docet. 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.
188939636London The Strand: David Nutt. Good with no dust jacket. 1889. 1st Thus. Vellum. frontis; FABLES OF AESOP as First Printed by William Caxton in 1484 with those of Avian Alfonso and Poggio now again edited and induced by Joseph Jacobs. With History of the Aesopic Fable. 2 volumes. Edited by Joseph Jacobs. Frontispiece illustrations. 25.2x15 cm 10x6" original publisher's binding of vellum-backed boards deckle edges. No. 48 of an edition limited to 50 of 60 copies on large paper. Rare Large Paper edition of Caxtons Aesop critically edited and with a long historical essay about the Fables and their origin in Vol. I. Bindings somewhat worn with some scuffing and cracking but fundamentally sound. Internally very clean and attractive. . David Nutt hardcover
2019122755Paris Les Cent Une 2019 1 vol. broché in-4, en feuilles, sous chemise et étui. Edition illustrée de sérigraphies originales en couleurs par Hervé Di Rosa formant un magnifique bestiaire avec de grands aplats de couleurs typiques de l'artiste. Tirage limité à 125 exemplaires nominatifs numérotés sur papier Tucco Old Mill 210 gr. et signés par l'artiste et la présidente. Etui partiellement décoloré, sinon parfait état.
2019122755Paris Les Cent Une 2019 1 vol. broché in-4, en feuilles, sous chemise et étui. Edition illustrée de sérigraphies originales en couleurs par Hervé Di Rosa formant un magnifique bestiaire avec de grands aplats de couleurs typiques de l'artiste. Tirage limité à 125 exemplaires nominatifs numérotés sur papier Tucco Old Mill 210 gr. et signés par l'artiste et la présidente. Etui partiellement décoloré, sinon parfait état.