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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
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
179349589London: John Stockdale 1793. Leather. Very Good. 2 vols. tall 8vo pp. lxv 189; xi 248. Later issue of the 1793 edition without the long 's' throughout and without the advertisement leaf in Volume I. Comprising 110 fables each with an engraved illustration together with two engraved title pages with vignettes; the date on the first volume was trimmed neat early repair. Large-paper copy clean and bright throughout. Handsomely bound by Riviere in full tan smooth calf spines with gilt-tooled compartments with floral devices and lettered in gilt on two morocco labels one green one red. Some spotting and scratching to the covers with a small faint stain to the lower rear board of Volume II. Bookplate and previous owner's ink stamp to endpapers and first blank. A handsome set. John Stockdale unknown
70097München J. Michael Müller 1920. 8° Titelkupfer IX 9 - 349 S. 146 Orig.-Kupferstiche Nach den Originalen neu gestochen Reich goldgeprägter Ganzledereinband Lesebändchen Büttenpapier Exlibris a. Vors. Kopfschnitt min. stockfleckig Nr. 4 von 200 Exemplaren. Text franz. Der prachtvolle Einband ist einem Einband der Bibliothek des Britischen Museums nachempfunden. Er wurde in der zweiten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts durch den berühmten Pariser Buchbinder Nicolas Eve für ein "Breviarum Romanum Ex Decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini Restitutum Pii V. Pont. Max. Jussu Editum" im Jahr 1588 geschaffen. Mit ausführlicher Einleitung 110 S. zu Leben und Werk Äsops. - Die Kupferstiche sind nicht zuweisbar. Ähnlichkeiten bestehen mit Äsop-Illustr. des berühmten Nürnberger Stechers Virgil Solis. Sie erschien erstmals 1566 in einer lateinischen Übersetzung- Jean Baudoin 1590 in Pradelles; † 1650 in Paris französischer Autor und Übersetzer. Er war Mitglied der Académie Française. An Gicht leidend starb er 1650 an Hunger und Kälte. - Michael Josef Maria Birkenbihl 1877-1960 deutscher Philosoph und Professor der Handelsakademie in München Buchautor von Erzählungen Novellen und Biografien und Übersetzer. 010 München, J. Michael Müller, 1920 unknown
58151Figueras: Gregori Matas y de Bodallés estamper y llibreter 1842. 12mo. 15 x 10 cm. pp.iv2797 index. Contemporary calf over marbled boards spine with gilt lettering and gilt foliate decoration. Wood-engraved frontispiece of Aesop and 194 vignettes head- and tail-pieces throughout. Occasional light spotting to margins and edges generally an excellent copy. Not in Palau. Figueras: Gregori Matas y de Bodallés, estamper y llibreter, 1842. hardcover
1689044668Paris: Pierre Aubouyn Pierre Emery et Charles Clouzier. Printed By Laurent Rondet 1689. In French. Worn. New edition title page dated 1689. Beautifully illustrated includes 139 fables each with the written fable on the left hand page and a wood engraving on the right with the moral below. Full brown leather frontis 12 279p two page colophon errata 1 page advertisement. Rear cover and rear free endpaper detached covers work spine dried but stabilized front hinge cracked front free endpaper and frontis loosened but not detached pages lightly age-toned but clean old dampstain to lower inner margins of first 100 pages and then again toward the end of the book not affecting printed areas different bookplates on either side of front free endpaper second one is from E. Coster Wilmerding name of Richard Creed Paris 1700 inside front cover with an 1814 notation that the book belonged to Richard Creed who was slain at the Battle of Blenheim and was being presented to Miss Katherine Simcoe signed Wililam Walcot names may actually be different that is what we could make out from the handwriting. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pierre Aubouyn, Pierre Emery et Charles Clouzier. Printed By Laurent Rondet Hardcover
1912aes01London: William Heinemann. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Cover heavily marked; spine darkened. Sporadic marking and foxing; some discolouration to margins. Occasional staining not impinging. Browning to pages sometimes heavy. Some off-setting. Previous owner's inscription dated 1917 to fep verso. Teg - remaining edges untrimmed. 1912. Limited Edition 1042/1450. White/gilt decorated hardback cloth cover. 300mm x 240mm 12" x 9". xxix 224pp. 13 mounted plates with captioned tissue-guards; additional illustrations in b/w. Signed on the limitation page by Rackham. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . William Heinemann hardcover
1714015977Amsterdam Etienne Roger: Amsterdam Etienne Roger 1714. First edition in French of Sir Roger L'Estrange's translation with Francis Barlow's engravings. Book measures 25x20.cm. lxxxiv2222pp engraved frontis 27 full-page illustrations of Aesop and 108 illustrations of Fables by Thomas Dudley and Francis Barlow. Bound in modern full vellum title to upper cover within Greek key border in pen & ink full coloured edges marble endpapers. Outer page edges slightly uneven. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally previous owners bookplate period signature on title pages very occasional minor stain tear repair. Pages in very good clean condition throughout. A very good clean copy in a very nice full vellum binding. Housed in a modern cloth drop-back box. First edition in French of Sir Roger L'Estrange's translation with Francis Barlow's engravings.F. Vellum. Very Good Plus. Quarto. Amsterdam, Etienne Roger Hardcover
41933Illustrated by Charles Folkard. Adams and Chales Black. London. 1912 Ist Edition. 4to 209pp. Hardcover cream pictorial cloth with gilt titles t.e.g; other edges uncut; rear eps have been replaced o/w interior in vg cond. Coloured frontis tipped in plate and 11 other coloured tipped in plates mounted on brown paper with captioned tissue guards; a limited edition of 250 copies of which this copy has been numbered 122; signed by the publishers. Illustrated by Charles Folkard. Adams and Chales Black. London. 1912 (Ist Edition) hardcover
1701aes33Amsterdam: Francisci Halme. VG : in very good condition. Rebacked with new endpapers. Wear to corners and laid-on spine panels. Archival repairs to verso of folding portrait plate. Library stamp to verso of fep. Inner hinges cracked. Browning and occasional marking commensurate with age. 1701. First Edition. Brown hardback leather cover. 270mm x 230mm 11" x 9". 32pp. 160pp. 84pp. index. Engraved folding frontis portrait by P. van Gunst after B. Vaillant; engraved frontispiece by P. Boutats after J. Goeree; 18 engraved plates with 6 roundels on each plate; additional engraved decorations. Beautifully illustrated edition of the 94 Aesop fables with 5 additional fables found by the German philologist and classical scholar Marquart Gudius. Together with a Life of Phædrus by Joanne Scheffero. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. . Francisci Halme hardcover
183559414Barcelona: Juan Francisco Piferrer 1835. hardcover. very good. Arregladas a la Ultima Ortografia de la Academia Mejoradas y Anadidas en esta Nueva Edicion. 108 text woodcuts by Jose Vilanova. 285pp. 6pp. index. Small 8vo contemporary vellum title inked by hand on front cover backstrip slightly chipped at tail; small water stain to corner of first 2 leaves. Barcelona: Juan Francisco Piferrer 1835.<br/> <br/> Rare charmingly illustrated Spanish edition of Aesop's fables. This edition not found in NUC or BMC. With the signature of the Massachusetts educator clergyman and bookseller Elias Nason 1811- 1887 and the bookplate of Nelson Osgood Rhoades 1869-1928 an American engineer and consultant to the Mexican government. Palau III 140.<br/> <br/> Juan Francisco Piferrer unknown
1718FF2503Utrecht:: Apud Guilielmum vande Water 1718. 1718. Two parts in one volume. Octavo. 62 398; 258 70 pp. Elaborate engraved frontispiece woodcut title vignette head & tail pieces index. Title printed in red & black. Internally generally clean and tight with offsetting to title. Later full red straight grain morocco single-ruled in gilt with gilt-stamped and lettered spine with solid single gilt roll to edges foot of spine gilt-stamped: TRAJ: AD RHEN publisher: 1718 all edges gilt marbled endsheets; somewhat rubbed. Bookplates of Thomas M. Lowndes and Henry Drury. Very good. With a fore-edge painting depicting a scene of HAWICK ROXBURGHSHIRE SCOTLAND after an engraving by John Greig fl. 1800-1843 from an original study by Luke Clennell 1781-1840. The fore-edge painting is based on an engraving found in Sir Walter Scott's Border Antiquities of England and Scotland Longman & Co. 1814-1817. This well-painted scene is likely of 20th century vintage. / The Dutch scholar Peter Burman was professor of the art of rhetoric and the history of Utrecht and also of Greek philology. In 1715 he succeeded Perizonius receiving the chair of history and the Greek language and the art of rhetoric at the Lyon-Batava Academy. Later he was librarian and director of the Lyon-Batava Academy. This is his commentary on Phaedrus which was originally issued in 1698. PROVENANCE: Thomas M. Lowndes – Henry Drury both pre-fore-edge – Jack Bartfield Fine Books New York – Randall J. Moskovitz MD Memphis Tennessee. Apud Guilielmum vande Water, 1718. 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
181017637<p>Paris: chez Henri Tardieu Libraire Rue et Maison des Mathurins 1810 First edition from this publisher. Some OCLC records bear dates of 1801 or 1802 for this same edition though the date on the title-page is "an X" i.e. 1810. The illustrations are copied from the original images by Barlow which were first published in 1666. This attractive edition of Aesop features the stories retold for the "amusement and instruction of the youth. Early marbled boards with green roan spine stamped in gilt. . Two volumes in one oblong octavo. . With 123 full-page engravings by Francis Barlow including the two frontispieces one for each volume. Quite clean throughout despite occasional dampstaining and foxing. A very good wide copy of a scarce edition. Barlow ca. 1626 – 1704 a painter etcher and illustrator is known as "the father of British sporting painting" and was "Britain's first wildlife painter beginning a tradition that reached a high-point a century later in the work of George Stubbs. He was furthermore a pioneer in the history of comics by creating A True Narrative of the Horrid Hellish Popish Plot c. 1682 a picture story about the life of Titus Oates and the Popish Plot which is told in a series of illustrated sequences where the story is written underneath them and the characters depicted on those images use speech balloons to talk" Tate Britain website. Barlow's edition of Aesop was published by William Godbid in 1666. Few copies of the first edition remain as many of them were destroyed along with the printer's premises in the Great Fire of London the same year the edition was published.</p> chez Henri Tardieu, Libraire, Rue et Maison des Mathurins, hardcover
166917325<p>A Bruxelles: Chez François Foppens 1669 A scarce seventeenth century illustrated edition. Jean Baudoin 1590 – 1650 first published his edition of Aesop in Paris in 1631. The Brussels editions contain a different series of illustrations than the earlier Paris editions. Pieter Van der Borcht 1545 – 1608 had a long career working for the Plantin Press in Antwerp. He also provided illustrations for Dodoens' famous herbal. . Rebound in modern tan calf. Gilt spine with black leather morocco label. Marbled edges. Twelvemo. With engraved allegorical title-page and 147 copper engravings in text by Pieter Van der Borcht. Includes a life of Aesop by Jean Baudoin. Ink ownership signature dated 1899 and an earlier note to preliminary blanks. Bright and fresh throughout aside from some minor toning. A very good clean copy. Landwehr 90 erroneously calling for a frontispiece and 148 illustrations. OCLC lists only seven copies in North America.</p> Chez François Foppens hardcover
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
1793H-123<p>FIRST Stockdale edition first issue with the long "s" throughout; 2 volumes large 8vo 270 x 165mm. VERY SCARCE Large Paper Copy. 2 Engraved title-pages and 110 plates All 112 plates are in fabulous unmarked condition; there is no foxing and the volumes are internally clean. Some leaves are slightly browned. Leather boards are slightly worn and previous owner's bookplates are present. Both volumes are bound in early perhaps original full leather bindings with faded gold lettering and decoration on the spines gold borders on the boards.<br />Page 198 of Vol I is misprinted as 891; the text is by Samuel Croxall. A very good collector's copy of the richly illustrated first edition of the famous Stockdale's Aesop.</p> Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly hardcover
1793330179London: Stockdale 1793. hardcover. very good-. 2 volumes. Title page vignettes and 100 other fine engraved plates. Tall 8vos bound in full tree calf; gilt-decorated spines with red leather labels joints weak and with repairs spines rubbed; light foxing throughout most notably on the title pages. London: John Stockdale 1793.<br/> <br/> Large-paper copy printed on rag paper with excellent engravings. The application or moral is an analysis of each fable.<br/> <br/> Stockdale unknown
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
2022DADAX1646432827Applesauce Press 2022-07-05. hardcover. New. 9.90x0.91x13.14. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Applesauce Press hardcover
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
1909035074London: Hodder and Stoughton 1909. Book. Illus. by Detmold E. J. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrators. Limited Edition. Large 4to 26 x 31cm. This edition limted to seven hundred and fifty copies numbered and signed by the artist of which this is No. 102. Unpaginated. 25 fine tipped-in colour illustrations by Detmold all with captioned paper guards and all in very good condition. Original cream cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration. Binding very good and clean without soiling light wear only gilt slightly dulled. Top edge gilt other edges uncut. Contents clean and tight original end papers with scarab beetle motif to the centre a little surface damage repaired to the edges of the front paste-down previous owner's neat signature to the front free endpaper. A very good copy of the fine limited edition. Hodder and Stoughton Hardcover
26132o.O. o.J. 1920. 6 Orig.-Holzschnitte auf Japan Blattgrösse: 20 x 117 cm Büttenpapierin Passpartout: 24 x 32 cm. 1 orig.-graphisches Titelbl. Lose Blatt Tadellos Auflage 50 Ex. Die Schnitte stellen folgende Fabeln dar: Vom quacksalbernden Schuster; Die beiden Last tragenden Maultiere; Der zerplatzte Frosch und der Ochse; Der Leopard.; Die Schlange und der Amboss. Hübsche detailgetreue naturalistische Holzschnitte. Das kleinere ebenfalls orig.-graphische Titelblatt und alle Schnitte signiert. Titelbl. auch dat. 1920. Phaedrus röm Fabeldichter übersetzte zuerst Fabeln des Aesop und schuf später eigenständige Geschichtchen die seine Zeitgenossen belehrten und karikierten. 010 o.O., o.J., 1920 unknown
1768ABC_45190Mannheim: Typis Academicis 1768. Contemporary vellum with spine label red edges. 8vo. With a frontispiece and 15 engraved plates by Egid Verhelst 1733-1804. 2 parts in 1 volume. First illustrated edition of the vast complete collection of Aesop fables arranged in 15 books to give a total of 532 fables in Latin verse with extensive footnotes brought together by Francois Joseph Terrasse Desbillons 1711-1789 a Jesuit and poet from Chateauneuf who studied with the Jesuits at Bourges and who became a professor of rhetoric in Nevers and Caen. After the dissolution of the Jesuit order in France he moved to Mannheim. Earlier editions containing fewer fables appeared in Glasgow published by the famous printers Robert and Agnew Foulis in 8vo 1754 first edition and in Paris by Guerin & Delatour 1756 second edition. J. Barbou in Paris also published editions with fewer fables around 1750.With the armorial bookplate of Duke R.H. St. Maur on front paste-down. A very good and clean copy.l Bodemann 152.1; not in Fabula docet. Typis Academicis, hardcover