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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 books
182375538Newcastle: T. Bewick & Son. Very Good. 1823. Fine Binding. This book has been re-bound hard-bound in a fine binding of smooth green leather with gilt-stamping raised bands and gilt stamped leather labels on the spine. The covers show some light scuffing and sunning edge-wear and light rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. The spine is lightly sunned. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and legible with vignette illustrations but also with some damp-staining to the outer edge of some of the pages. Limited # 243 with a facsimile signature and "thumbprint" of Thomas Bewick on the Limitation Page. . T. Bewick & Son unknown books
192944667Chicago: Albert Whitman 1929. Third printing. Dash Joseph Eugene. 8vo pp. 254. Illustrated in black and orange by Joseph Eugene Dash. Red cloth with paper illustration on front and gilt lettering.Corners and ends of spine little scuffed or worn o/w a VG tight copy. Albert Whitman unknown books
16948748London. c. 1694. Bound by Richmond in full elaborately blind embossed calfskin. Guilt-tool ornamental devices to front and rear covers. Raised bands and guilt titles to spine. Marbled endsheets. Tall 4to. Early Printing. Illustrated with a frontis Depicting Aesope surrounded by animal characters. Wing A-706: Hodnett-Aesope in England 63. This copy; lacks title page ad leaf @ pg.38 and portrait of L'Estange. Spine heal lacking with lacquered repared. Corners bumped. Covers mildly rubbed. Else a Very Good sound copy. hardcover books
19821322Guildford England: Circle Press 1982. Printed wrapper. First Edition. 4to 8pp. illustrated with two relief prints. One of 100 copies signed by Legge in pencil. Designed and printed by the artists on 300 gsm Somerset rag-made paper bound in brown cardboard covers with black lettering on front and sewn with white thread. Fine. Circle Press unknown books
1989281885New York: Abrams 1989. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Introduction by Everett Fahy. Fables Translated from the Greek by Bernard McTigue. Illustrated throughout with 151 color facsimiles. 175pp. Slim square 4to gilt- stamped navy blue cloth d.w. New York: Abrams 1989. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper inscribed by Fahy on the title page.<br/><br/> Reproductions of the elegantly-illuminated 15th century Florentine manuscript traced to the library of Lorenzo de Medici's son Piero.<br/><br/> Abrams unknown books
1989276363New York: Abrams 1989. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Introduction by Everett Fahy. Fables Translated from the Greek by Bernard McTigue. Illustrated throughout with 151 color facsimiles. 175pp. Slim square 4to gilt- stamped navy blue cloth d.w. New York: Abrams 1989. One corner very slightly bumped still a near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Inscribed by Fahy on the title page to Shirley Hazzard & Francis Steegmuller.<br/><br/> Reproductions of the elegantly-illuminated 15th century Florentine manuscript traced to the library of Lorenzo de Medici's son Piero.<br/><br/> Abrams unknown books
1930306689San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1930. Number 160 of 200 copies 175 for sale. Initials and hand-colored decorations by Valenti Angelo. 1 vols. 8vo. Full brick-red morocco. Bookplate of Julia Wightman. Fine. Angelo Valenti. Number 160 of 200 copies 175 for sale. Initials and hand-colored decorations by Valenti Angelo. 1 vols. 8vo. Grabhorn Bibliography 142 Grabhorn Press unknown books
1954WN5616New York: MOMA 1954. Paper covered boards in black and red designed by Frasconi. Number 43 of 973 numbered copies signed by Frasconi Glenway Wescott who did the new translation and Joseph Blumenthal at the Spiral Press. Frasconi"s linoleum blocks are bold in black and red and seem to be peculiarly American pictures of barns with hex signs and figures wearing what appear to be blue jeans. An altogether charming and fresh presentation of a favorite subject by an illustrator known best for his children's book. Limited/Numbered. Clothbacked Paper Covered Bds. Near Fine/Slipcase Good. Illus. by Frasconi Antonio. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. MOMA Hardcover books
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
1708D4271Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier 1708. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes 152 x 95mm. Vol. I: 297pp. 7 table; Vol. II: 287pp. 4 index. Both volumes with the identical engraved frontispiece depicting the traditional theme of Aesop ruling the animals. The moralizing tales are extensively illustrated with copper- plate engravings by Georg Paul Busch. Volume I contains the life of Aesop by Planudes and the beginning of Aesops Fables and Volume II continues with Aesops Fables and includes the Fables of Philelphe Gabrias and Avienus. Modern binding; frontispiece of vol. II somewhat chipped otherwise clean and good. Rare and richly illustrated edition of Aesops fables with extensive dialogue on the moral of each fable. Jean-Baptiste Morvan de Bellegarde a clergyman put his mark on the Aesopic work by contributing a four-line rhyming verse at the end of each fable in italics. Bellegarde also added 18 fables of the Latin poet Philelphus and 37 fables based on Aesop by Gabrias and Avienus. The larger fables added are the Battle of the Cats and the Rats and the Battle of the Rats and the Frogs. Thereafter follow five Tales of Aesop taken from Platos dialogue Protagoras another six Poetical fables with Olympian Gods as protagonists two more Tales one taken from Herodot and a last fable taken from Gerbellius. The beautiful fable illustrations are by Georg Paul Busch; a Berlin copper-engraver who died in 1756. Rare early edition of Aesopic literature with several other didactic tales and authors additions. <br/><br/> Pierre Mortier hardcover books
16051704209Tornaesium 1605. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A very good early 1605 edition of Aesop's Fables. In protective case. Tornaesium hardcover books
15011859Basel: Jacob Wolff of Pforzheim 1501. First edition thus. An early illustrated edition of Aesop's Fables augmented and edited by Sebastian Brant and the first edition to include his additional 140 sections. Two parts in one volume folio leaves measuring 297 x 208 mm. Collates complete retaining one of the two blank leaves M6 lacking. Collation identical to the Fairfax-Murray copy: a-b8 c6-o8 alternately p-s6 s6 blank and original; A-B8 C-D6 E8-K6 alternately L4 M5 M6 final blank lacking. With the famous woodcut portrait of Aesop on the verso of a1 and a smaller woodcut portrait of Brant on the verso of A1 in part two. A total of 335 woodcuts divided into 194 in part one and 141 in part two inclusive of the portraits. Text in Latin. <br/><br/>Full black straight-grain morocco. Boards ruled in gilt with gilt dentelles. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Generous margins. Previous owner's small bookplate on front pastedown. This copy has been very carefully restored and generally presents quite well. Certain passages were deemed obscene shortly after publication and as a consequence most known copies have a few sections defaced. This copy is no different with a number of passages and illustrations crossed out and/or marked "no legas" "do not read". A number of leaves have had small marginal tears or wormholes repaired occasionally affecting a letter or a word. One leaf C4 with a small hole affecting the woodcut on the recto and two or three words on the verso. A few leaves have been remargined including the title page to part 2 leaf A1. In two places leaves are bound out of order. The flaws notwithstanding a lovely book.<br/><br/>The plan of this edition was conceived by Sebastian Brant. The first part of the book is based on Johann Zainer's first illustrated edition of 1476-77 translated into Latin by Heinrich Steinhöwel. Brant expands the work polishes the language and includes his commentaries to these fables. The second part is an entirely new work by Brant of 140 fables riddles accounts of miracles and other wonders of nature. These 140 new chapters follow the same structure as the first section with a woodcut followed by verse and then prose "some of a very remarkable character" according to Hugh W. Davies Fairfax Murray. These compositions are taken from the works of Stace Juvenal Virgil Ovid Lucien. The first story taken from Hesiod is said to be the oldest known fable.<br/><br/>"The numerous woodcuts in this volume fall into two distinct categories. The woodcuts in the first part with a few exceptions are rather simplistic and naive in execution and are based in reverse on the woodcuts from Zainer's successful Ulm edition of c.1476 incidentally the first illustrated edition of Aesop; the actual blocks were first used in Wolff's edition of not after 1489 Goff A115. The woodcuts of the second part are more sophisticated with the use of hatching and perspective to enliven the images and they were cut specifically for this edition; is it thought they were produced by the workshop of Johann Grüninger in Strassburg" Sotheby's. According to Hugh W. Davies "The remainder of the cuts are by a new artist the style entirely differing from the older blocks. These are heavily shaded by thin close parallel lines amalgamating into a solid mass in the deepest shadows. The perspective as a rule is fair: the faces are well rounded the noses being broad at the bridge but well-shaped. The cuts have the appearance of metal but they nevertheless are probably on wood."<br/><br/>In the past 30 years there have been five other auction results for this book one copy selling twice. The average price achieved in those five sales including the buyer's premium is just under $119000. If we average just the two copies sold in the last ten years that average jumps to over $167000. Of those five results the lowest sale price from 2002 made over $81000. And finally to complete the analysis a particularly fine copy was offered by the trade in 2014 for 200000 pounds roughly $329000. So while our copy has its defects and imperfections as do almost all other copies it is priced competitively for such a lovely and important work. <br/><br/> Fairfax Murray 20. Goed. I 390 24. Adams A291. Jacob Wolff of Pforzheim unknown books
1979299746Norwalk: Easton 1979. hardcover. fine. Lawson Robert. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. 130 pages. Thin 4to gilt-stamped brown leather all edges gilt. Norwalk: Easton Press 1979. A fine copy.<br/><br/> Easton unknown books
198972836NY:: Orchard Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0531057747 . First American printing. Near fine in a near fine price clipped dust jacket. . Orchard Books, hardcover books
1982RGKK819-118Santa Cruz CA: The Good Book Press 1982. First Edition. Miniature Book. Very Good. Miniature Book. 3 x 2 5/8 inches. Unpaginated. 10 pp. 2 linoleum cuts by Donna Thomas; text clean unmarked. Hand-made paper over boards titled in blue on the spine and front cover; binding square and tight; spine lightly faded. Glen Dawson's copy without distinguishing marks. RGKK819-118. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 90 copies this is copy number 6 printed and bound with Peter's hand-made paper. Aesop's fable teaches us the folly of greed. REFERENCE: Bradbury 20th-Century U.S. Miniature Books No. 44. The Good Book Press unknown books
18648464Boston. T.O.H.P. Burnham. 1864. Bound in blind embossed gilt titled cloth. Thick 12mo 5.5" x 7". Illustrated with 198 woodcuts en texte. Spine well sunned covers mildly sunned and rubbed. Headpiece chipped. Ink inscription to ffep. Light water staining to bottom corners throughout very seldom reaching text block. Volume presents slight lean. Several signatures slightly shaken but very firm. A Good crisp bright copy. T.O.H.P. Burnham. hardcover books
199889496London:: Folio Society. Near Fine. 1998. Hardcover. B000LJN6ZG . First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine slipcase.; 152 pages . Folio Society, hardcover books
197175037NY:: Seabury Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. 0816430705 . Second printing. Near fine in a near fine one short closed edge tear both corners of front flap are clipped dust jacket. . Seabury Press, hardcover books
200051043NY:: SeaStar Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 1587170000 . First printing. SIGNED and dated by the illustrator on the title page in the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . SeaStar Books, hardcover books
182042859London: Baldwin Cradock and Joy 1820. First edition. Frontispiece 34 of 35 plates each with two engravings. iv 127 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary black roan and marbled boards. Bookseller's yellow ticket of J. Painter Wrexham on front pastedown. Rubbed joints worn. Internally clean. First edition. Frontispiece 34 of 35 plates each with two engravings. iv 127 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Osborne p.7 citing the 1823 ed Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy unknown books
D16387London: Marcus Ward & Co. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. ca. 1874. Exceptionally scarce book of Animal Fables. Original dark blue cloth gilt and black lettering and elaborate pictorial decoration on upper cover gray end-papers. Lovely color illustrations. First published in parts Osborne p. 567. <br/><br/> Marcus Ward & Co hardcover books
1979Embry 196325Easton Press 1979. Fine. Illus. by Robert Lawson. Full brown leather decoratively gilt. Easton Press, 1979. hardcover books
18154763Madrid: Imprenta de Lopez y Hermano 1815. Hard cover. Good/Charming well-thumbed American copy of the popular compilation of fables. . Small octavo 16 cm; 24 352 pages. Woodcut vignette on title page and 62 woodcuts vignettes many of them captioned with proverbs or "dichos" illustrating the fables. Bound in rustic contemporary vellum over boards in Latin American style laced to text block with headband cores titled in ink on spine worn peeling at fore-edge of upper board; scorched on lower board. Old sewing on spine. Title page loose. Damp stain in lower margin of first 20 leaves affecting title page. Sewing is inexpert yet holding. Protected in clamshell case. Imprenta de Lopez y Hermano hardcover books
166912293312mo. Bruxelles: François Foppens 1669. 12mo engraved general title trimmed with slight loss at foot 8 412 8 indexpp. With 147 engravings in the text by Pieter Van der Borcht. Recent full calf marbled edges gilt backstrip black label. A good clean copy though trimmed a little close to the top edge but not touching text. Ownership signature at front in ink of Joseph Heughan dated 1899 and an earlier note in ink: "Edition très jolie et très rare." and two ink initials on the title-page. § Well represented in libraries but a scarce little edition in commerce. It was translated by Pierre de Boissat who was probably also responsible for the moral reflections attributed to Jean Baudoin. The text and illustrations were reprinted in 1920 as a private press book in Germany. François Foppens unknown books
