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2004Q-1404803181Picture Window Books 2004. library. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Picture Window Books unknown
180709Auspoa Liburutegia Colección Auspoa 1963. tapa blanda. 2ª Mano - Bueno/2ª Mano. Auspoa Liburutegia Colección Auspoa. 1963. Auspoa 28. ligero rozado en cubierta. ipuin onak / Fabulas de de Esopo. Euskara antes del Batua 155 p. 18x11 cm. tapa blanda Auspoa Liburutegia (Colección Auspoa) unknown
187953349Edinburgh:: Privately printed for Subscribers by Ballantyne Hanson & Co. 1879. Edition de Luxe; one of 100 copies this copy is unnumbered. old half morocco t.e.g. rebacked with original spine laid down and new endpapers. Clean tight and sound. Large 8vo. To Which are Prefixed The Life of Aesop and an Essay Upon Fable by Oliver Goldsmith. Privately printed for Subscribers by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., unknown
18799372Edinburgh:: Privately Printed for Subscribers by Ballantyne Hanson & Co. 1879. Edition de luxe printed on Whatman paper from the original wood engravings; No. 75 of 100 copies. publisher's vellum with mounted illustration t.e.g. Binding a little dust-soiled; internally clean and sound. Small folio. With the Original Wood Engravings by Thomas Bewick.to which are Added Select Supplementary Illustrations of Bewick's Genius. Privately Printed for Subscribers by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., hardcover
181875623Newcastle: Printed by E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son 1818. First edition; Royal octavo issue; Variant B. contemporary old polished calf; all edges marbled; both covers detached and spine absent. Three attractive old bookplates on pastedown; aside from the binding flaws noted a very attractive copy. . 8vo. Added engraved frontispiece portrait; illustrated throughout from wood engravings by Thomas Bewick. Roscoe 45b. With the "thumb-mark receipt" page with printed facsimile signatures of Thomas Bewick and Robert Elliott Bewick and seaweed in red over wood-engraved landscape bound before title. This is one of the few copies that bear the autograph signature of Thomas Bewick above the thumb-mark. Printed by E. Walker, for T. Bewick and Son, unknown
1975006539London: Paddington Press. A reprint of the 1818 edition with a new intro by Michael Marqusee. Attractive half-leather binding with marbled boards and matching endpapers. Without dustwrapper as issued . Fine. Hardcover. 1st thus. 1975. Paddington Press hardcover
1818405619Newcastle: E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son 1818. A very good copy internally clean and fresh joints restored and with some light wear to binding. 8vo. xxiv 376 pages. 188 fable cuts and 136 tailpieces in text. Contemporary English polished calf the sides and spines decorated in blind and gilt marbled edges by Whitehead and Sons Leeds with their ticket on pastedown. A handsome copy of Bewick's extensively and exquisitely illustrated fables. Roscoe 45. E. Walker for T. Bewick and Son unknown
1983009245San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1983. Book. Fine. Paper Covered Boards. Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. "With an original leaf from the first edition 1818 of The Fable of Aesop and a new impression from one of Bewick's original wood engravings." Fine in plain white paper jacket title in pencil at spine. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Publication no. 175 of The Book Club of California. one of 518 copies designed by Jack Werner Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press binding by the Schuberth Book Bindery. The Book Club of California Hardcover
19831247071983. San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1983. <br /> <br /> 4to 58 4pp. Frontispiece 8 illustrations an original leaf and a proof from an original block. Original brown boards white paper spine label. As issued in fine condition.<br /> <br /> § Edition limited to 518 numbered copies. The inserted leaf is " Jupiter and the Ass" and the proof is "The Boys and the Frogs". Not a rare book but an important addition to Bewick scholarship. There is a biographical sketch by John W. Borden and a history of the fables by Janet S. Krueger. The book was designed by Jack Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press who also took the new impression from the original Bewick block and lithographed at the Cloister Press. unknown
2003BN67533Nord-Süd Verlag 2003. Hardcover. mit Kerbe am hinteren oberen Buchfalz sonst sehr gut erhalten! Nord-Süd Verlag hardcover
187534370London: Chatto & Windus 1875. Very good. Second edition of this Victorian tour de force with fine and fabulous hand-colored images of humanized animals. Eric Quayle notes that Bennett 1829-1867 had a short career which was terminated by consumption but his books were "extremely popular most passing though several editions"; this book "contains some of Bennett's finest and most vigorous work" 217. The Morgan Library's EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND THEIR ILLUSTRATORS also list it as a notable edition of Aesop. Bennett's compositions suggest the fine caricature of PUNCH but applied a classic work of ancient Greece. 9.75'' x 7.25''. Original blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black. Yellow coated endpapers. Illustrated by Bennett with 24 full-page wood engravings hand colored including title page. 22 pages. Emboss of famed Victorian bookselling firm W.H. Smith & Son to front fly leaf. Slight lean with a bit of cracking to hinges still firm. Subtle repairs to spine ends a few spots to boards. Interior lightly foxed. Bright. Chatto & Windus unknown
1857500047160London: W. Kent & Co & Bradbury and Evans 1857. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair. Original decorated . Lime green cloth spineSome marks to boards foxed especially corner of plates <br/> <br/> W. Kent & Co & Bradbury and Evans hardcover
1884213868Boston MA: D. Lothrop & Co 1884. Hardcover. Good-. Red/orange boarts with gilt and black text black printed illustration on cover. Textblock fully gilt. 111 Unnumbered pages. Bw illustrations. Illustrated by E. H. Garrett F. H. Lungren F. Childe Hassam George Foster Barnes M. J. Sweeney<br /> Contents: The cats at law -- The ants and the grasshopper -- The maid and the milkpail -- The town mouse and the country mouse -- The donkey and the lion's skin -- The larks and the farmer -- The hare and the tortoise -- The fox and the stork -- The shepherd boy and the wolf -- The lion and the mouse -- The fox and the crow -- The frogs who wished a king. D. Lothrop & Co hardcover
155185London: Pictorial Literature Society. Hard Cover. Poor/No Jacket. No date shown; circa 1880's. Text block is completely detached from covers which are worn with a torn spine and the front and rear covers are nearly detached from each other. Fragile age-toned pages show some open tears and foxing. 7 1/4""w x 9 1/2""h. Approx. 90 pages. Elaborate black and white illustrations throughout. Keywords: 1800's Verse poetry Animal tales Illustrations Translated Greek Pictorial Literature Society hardcover
166648718London.: Printed by William Godbid for Francis Barlow and are to be sold by Ann Seile at the Black-Boy against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet and Edward Powell at the Swan in Little Britain. 1666. Full contemporary calf boards ruled in blind later spine with red morocco label with gilt title and blind rules in seven compartments marbled edges. Folio. 356 x 242 mm. Printed title within double rules engraved title by Barlow with central title within elaborate cartouche and surrounded by an eagle leopard boar fox wolf and lion leaf with large decorative woodcut inhabited ten-line initial and Barlow's dedication to Sir Francis Pruijan or Prujean leaf with Barlow's 'To the Reader' leaf with engraved frontispiece of Aesop with animals and additional engraving with text beneath 20 leaves with 'A Brief Prospect of the Life of Aesop' 16 leaves with 'La Vie d'Esope' 9 leaves with 'Aesopi Philosophice Fabulantis Vita' and Aesop's 110 fables illustrated with 110 engravings final leaves with 'La Table' and 'The Table' decorative woodcut initials and tail-pieces throughout; sheet size: 350 x 228 mm. A very rare large paper copy of the scarce first edition of Francis Barlow's undoubted masterpiece of English book illustration.By the time of the Restoration Francis Barlow had achieved a measure of success with his suites of prints of animals - engraved by the best such as Hollar Griffier and Place - and his decoration of houses and by the mid-1660s had contributed to the Aesop of Ogilby and Hollar. It is not entirely clear why he would wish to issue another edition of the Fables Hofer suggests a competitive nature and a different projected audience but by 1665 he had engraved a superb title it bears that date and by the time of publication in 1666 the date to the letterpress title had engraved a frontispiece of Aesop surrounded by animals and 110 half-page vignettes after his own drawings to illustrate the Fables. Each of the Fable engravings is accompanied by lines of verse by Thomas Philipott; the translations of Aesop's life into French and Latin was by Robert Codrington. Whatever Barlow's motivation the result is one of the most extensive and beautiful English illustrated books of the seventeenth century and one of the scarcest the scarcity often attributed to the loss of the sheets in the Great Fire of London. Large paper copies of this first edition are identifiable see ESTC through various issue points all present here but also as per Philip Hofer the transposition of some of Barlow's engravings. In the present copy the engraving for 'Fab. XLVIII' 'The Ant and Fly' is in fact that for 'Fab. XLXIX' 'The Ant and Grasshopper'. Hofer indicates too that the engravings for 'Fab. LXX' 'The Tortoise and Hare' and 'Fab. LXXI' The Young Man and His Cat' are also transposed however in the present copy they are not the margins headlines etc. conform to the remaining large paper leaves although 'The Young Man and His Cat' features the erroneous title 'The Nurse and Her Child' 'Fab. LXIX' albeit with the correct page number. Large paper copies also feature 'FINIS' beneath the signature Ppp at the foot of the leaf with the final engraving for 'FAB. CX' 'The Tortoise & Eagle'; in addition the spacing of the text in the large paper copy also suggests that the text on this leaf was reset.A second edition was published in 1687 with additional plates to illustrate the life of Aesop and with Philipott's verse replaced with new verse by Aphra Behn. A third edition was issued in 1703 and a posthumous French edition appeared in 1714 published in Amsterdam; Philip Hofer suggests that the third edition was really made up of unused sheets from the two earlier editions but with a new title and that the edition in French - it makes use of some of Barlow's plates - is not a Barlow edition.'This seventeenth-century polyglot English-French-Latin Aesop is handsomely illustrated with engravings after designs by Francis Barlow 1626 - 1702 an English painter renowned for his pictures of country life and field sports. He was perhaps the finest English draughtsman of animal scenes in the seventeenth century. Barlow who published the book at his own expense explains in his preface that he intends the work to contribute to the education of young people. This is the first edition; the relatively few copies known are all survivors of the Great Fire of London which swept over the printer's premises in 1666.' Early Children's Books and Their Illustration.'No artist has responded with more sensitivity and less sentimentality to the gentle grace of deer . The least of creatures the frog the hare the snake and the swallow and the least favoured of them the ass the boar and the wolf -- he draws them all with an intimacy charm and inviolable integrity never surpassed in an English book . '. Edward Hodnett.'Francis Barlow was the first native English book illustrator - indeed the leading interpretative illustrator in England before 1800 . Otto Benesch of the Albertina Museum Vienna has called him 'one of the greatest illustrators of all time'.' Edward Hodnett.This large paper issue of the 1666 Aesop is very scarce: while ESTC lists 17 copies for the small paper issue see ESTC R21542 it notes only two of the large: the copy at the Huntington and that at the Morgan Library and Museum New York; Harvard also holds a copy.ESTC R477463; see 'Francis Barlow' by Edward Hodnett 1978; see #9 in the Morgan Library and Museum's 'Early Children's Books and Their Illustration' 1975; see Philip Hofer's 'Francis Barlow's Aesop' printetd in the Harvard Library Bulletin Autumn 1948. Printed by William Godbid for Francis Barlow, and are to be sold by Ann Seile at the Black-Boy against St. Dunstan's Church in F hardcover
168747459London.: H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow. 1687. Full contemporary midnight blue morocco by the 'Barlow's Aesop Binder' boards ruled in gilt to surround gilt tooled decorative panels with foliate decorative corner pieces banded spine with elaborate decorative tooling and title 'BARLOWs AESOP' gilt turn ins and board edges with gilt roll tool decoration marbled endpapers a.e.g. black morocco-backed velvet-lined buckram box. Folio. 372 x 242 mm. Engraved title printed title engraving with the Devonshire arms dedication leaf 'to the Right Honourable William of Devonshire' leaf 'to the Reader' engraved frontispiece and 31 engraved plates illustrating the 'Life of Aesop' and 110 half-page vignette engravings to the 'Fables'. A superlative large paper copy in a contemporary English binding by the Barlow's Aesop Binder of Barlow's undoubted masterpiece of English book illustration.This copy - printed on excellent paper - is in a beautiful contemporary binding the binding in a beautiful state of preservation by the ‘Barlow’s Aesop Binder’. Few bindings by the 'Barlow’s Aesop Binder' are known and the present copy identifiable by the lettering to the spine and the comparable decorative tooling is one of only a handful. Active in the 1680s and 1690s the bindery worked certainly for William and Mary although the identified copies of Barlow’s masterpiece from the bindery include too the Devonshire dedication copy from Chatsworth the Cracherode copy both these now at the British Library Pepys’ copy at Magdalene Cambridge the present copy and one other in a private collection in the US.This second edition of Francis Barlow's masterpiece adds 31 plates 32 including the frontispiece to illustrate the life of Aesop including the often mutilated 'obscene' plate here untouched and includes verse by Aphra Behn 1640 - 1689 commissioned especially for each of the 'Fables'. The unsigned plates are engraved by Barlow and the remainder by Thomas Dudley a student of Wenceslaus Hollar. Barlow himself drew and engraved all of the illustrations for the 'Fables' themselves.'The Ingenious Mrs. A. Behn has been so obliging as to perform the English Poetry which in short comprehends the Sense of the Fable and Moral: Whereof to say much were needless since it may sufficiently recommend it self to all Persons of Understanding.' Francis Barlow.'Francis Barlow was the first native English book illustrator - indeed the leading interpretative illustrator in England before 1800 . Otto Benesch of the Albertina Museum Vienna has called him 'one of the greatest illustrators of all time'.' Edward Hodnett.Complete copies of Barlow's work in good condition are scarce the present copy however a large paper example in its original binding by theh Barlow’s Aesop Binder printed on a different thick paper stock and entirely unsophisticated is of the utmost rarity. This is borne out if it is necessary to provide evidence by the fact that this copy featured in two sophisticated collections of illustrated books of the last 50 years: firstly that of Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow secondly that of Robert S. Pirie; the latter collector rarely if ever settled for second best and would certainly have bought another copy if he had found one. That he had to wait for the present copy is telling.Wing 703; see ‘English Restoration Bindings’ by Howard Nixon pg. 40 nos. 98 / 99; see 'Francis Barlow' by Edward Hodnett 1978. H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow. hardcover
55926New York: Castle Books N.D. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Chips and tears creases to jacket. All corners of flaps are slightly clipped. No date. Scarce in a dust jacket. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall. Castle Books hardcover
BN329544Lirabelle. Hardcover. Le rat des villes et le rat des champs <br/><br/>Le rat des villes et le rat des champs Ayako Kubo et Esope Lirabelle 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
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
191389076Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie 1913. Fine. Rackham illustrates the father of the Western fable Librairie Hachette et Cie Paris 1913 23 x 29.5 cm relié Illustrated edition with compositions by Arthur Rackham 13 in colour tipped in with captioned tissue guards and 52 black-and-white illustrations in the text one of 55 copies on japon signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page deluxe issue.  Publisher’s full vellum binding flat spine gilt-lettered with gilt-stamped animals upper cover gilt-stamped with the title and an illustration of animals top edge gilt uncut lower cover silk ties preserved.  A fine copy of the works of the most celebrated fabulist illustrated by Arthur Rackham one of the rare copies on japon.  Provenance: Maurice Feuillet with his manuscript ex-libris on the half-title. A renowned press illustrator notably for major judicial cases but also an art critic and founder of the Figaro artistique Feuillet remains famous for his courtroom sketches at the trials of Émile Zola in 1898 and Alfred Dreyfus in 1899.  Librairie Hachette et Cie hardcover
1017097755.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2004Q-0451529537Signet 2004-10-05. Mass Market Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Signet paperback
1992Q-0451525655Signet Classics 1992-10-06. Mass Market Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Signet Classics paperback
1984963T1London: Hamish Hamilton 1984. First edition. Hardback. Near Fine. 8.5" by 6.5". William Caxton. Two smart first editions of this collection of fables attributed to Aesop edited by the Gascoignes with Caxton's original illustrations. Two volumes of the same work. First Gascoigne edition. With Caxton's original illustrations printed in celebration of the five hundredth anniversary of his edition. Illustrated with colour images throughout. A collection of the fables attributed to Aesop a Greek fabulist and storyteller noted for his tales characterized by anthropomorphic animal characters. Many of the tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. With the illustrations of William Caxton an English merchant diplomat and writer thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England in 1476. He is credited with printing over one hundred books including the first English translation of Aesop's Fables 1484. Edited by Arthur Bamber Gascoigne an English television presenter and author who was the original quizmaster of University Challenge and his wife Christina Gascoigne an English photographer artist and editor. In the original paper covered boards. Externally very smart with light wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrappers are also very smart with light wear only. With a handmade card chemise in excellent condition. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot to the fore edge and minor age toning to the extremities. Near Fine Hamish Hamilton hardcover
