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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
FORT861660Garden City Publishing Co. Used - Acceptable. 1939. Includes all 13 full-colour plates illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Octavo. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Tipped-on full colour illustration of several animals to front board. Garden City Publishing Co hardcover
183323289London: J. Souter School Library 73 St. Paul's Churchyard. Good with no dust jacket. 1833. Hardcover. Ex-library "Students' Library - Mount St. Mary's - Greenmeadows". Library rubber stamp on title page. Some library markings. Owner's signature "John Bowden". Spine rubbed with some abrasions to leather. Gutters split at hinges. ; 2 recto: title 97 1 Errata pages. Quarter blue leather and blue cloth boards. Contemporary printed paper label on front board. Page dimensions: 170 x 98mm. Aesop's fables. Greek text of 50 fables on pages 1-50. Short Notes and Explanations in English on pages 51-60. Lexicon Greek-English on pages 61-97. ; 12mo . J. Souter, School Library, 73, St. Paul's Churchyard 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
169010502Bruxelles: Jean Léonard 1690. Provanance: Antonetta Schrassert. In-12° 15 x 9 cm 118 pp et frontispice en taille-douce. Dans la même reliure : Esope comédie accomodée au Théâtre Italien. Par Mr. Le Noble. Paris Guillaume de Luynes 1691. Frontispice 107 pp manquent les pp. 101-104. Illustré de gravures dans le texte. Reliure en plein vélin de l'époque estampée à froid titre en encre sur le dos old books Jean Léonard unknown
17603939<p>An attractive copy of the fourth of five illustrated editions with Richardson's Life of Aesop. It was first published in 1739 with a title-page dated 1740 with subsequent editions in 1749 1753 two issues and 1775. All of the editions are scarce with ESTC listing four copies of the first edition two copies of the second five of the third edition. The 25 engraved plates include delightful illustrations in miniature for each of the fables with a brief caption and fable number given above each illustration. The engraved title-page is also very attractive with an idealised illustration of a landscape peopled with different animals.</p><p>ESTC t118432 listing BL Bodleian Szczecin Public Library Louisiana State University Rice UCLA and Yale.</p> J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, J. Hawes, W. Clarke, R. Collins, T. Caslon, S. Crowder, T. Longman, B. Law, R. Withy, J. Dodsley, G. K
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
3732641<p>Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son 1881. 103pp. Sm. 8vo. Cloth. Two illustrations. Faint soil and trifle fading to binding; a near fine copy with bright gilt</p> <p>Translated into English from Latin tales from Aesop and others as told by Phaedrus the 1st-century Roman fabulist and the first to versify Aesop’s fables into Latin. With notes and an introduction by the translator. Rare. OCLC returns one copy in America one in Australia.</p> unknown
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
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1982013162Pennsylvania: Franklin Library 1982. Leather binding. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. full blue leather with three raised bands to spine. Unopened condition with notes from the editors pamphlet <br/> <br/> Franklin Library hardcover
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