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008596New York: Hodder & Stoughton No Date 1909-1912. Collects 313 of Aesop's classic fables and features 23 mounted full-color plates all present by Detmold. Originally published by Hodder and Stoughton in London in 1909 in a limited edition this American edition is quite uncommon in commerce. Very Good in original embossed green cloth with gilt lettering illustrated end papers small prior owner name in ink scattered moderate toning throughout spine evenly sunned to pale green mounting page for illustration at p.134 loose. Still an attractive copy with all of the marvelous Detmold illustrations. . American Edition. Embossed Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hodder & Stoughton Hardcover books
008596New York: Hodder & Stoughton Book. Very Good. Hardcover. American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No Date 1909-1912. Collects 313 of Aesop's classic fables and features 23 mounted full-color plates all present by Detmold. Originally published by Hodder and Stoughton in London in 1909 in a limited edition this American edition is quite uncommon in commerce. Very Good in original embossed green cloth with gilt lettering illustrated end papers small prior owner name in ink scattered moderate toning throughout spine evenly sunned to pale green mounting page for illustration at p.134 loose. Still an attractive copy with all of the marvelous Detmold illustrations. Hodder & Stoughton Hardcover
1997962T97London: Grandreams Limited; Hamish Hamilton 1997-1999. First edition. Hardback. Fine. 12" by 9.5". Pam Storey; Korky Paul. Three very smart first edition volumes of Aesop's fables retold for children. With bright illustrations throughout. Three volumes. Illustrated throughout with colour images. 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. Each volume contains two of these classic tales. This set contains: A Collection of Aesop's Fables 1997. First edition. With stories including: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing The Quack Frog and The Fortune Teller amongst others. Retold by Deborah Campbell-Todd a British children's book author. Illustrated by Pam Storey an English self-taught artist and illustrator. Aesop's Funky Fables 1997. First hardcover edition first impression. With stories written in to catchy rap-rhythms including: The Boy Who Cried Wolf The Fox and the Stork and The Hare and the Tortoise amongst others. Retold by Vivian June Isoult French a British writer of picture book texts novels plays and non-fiction for children and young adults. Illustrated by Hamish Vigne Christie "Korky" Paul a Rhodesian-born British illustrator of children's books. Aesop's Funky Fables 1999. First softcover edition by Puffin Books first impression. In the original pictorial paper covered boards. Externally excellent. The hardcover edition of Funk Fables is bound with the original unclipped dust wrapper which is also in excellent condition. With a cloth covered clamshell case also in excellent condition bound by Eric Sweet. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine Grandreams Limited; Hamish Hamilton hardcover
2007Q-0762428767Running Press Kids 2007-10-02. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Running Press Kids hardcover
mon0001002291Frederick Warne and Co. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. New edition. Pages clean no markings wear to edges. Complete with 110 original illustrations. Frederick Warne and Co. hardcover
1867000013138Boston: T.O.H.P. Burnham 1867. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 4 5 vi-xxiii 2 26-358 4 pp. Brown smooth publisher's cloth with blind rules on the boards gilt lettering and a wolf's head in gilt on the spine. Peach endpapers and pastedowns. With 198 illustrations done in black and white one full-page the rest in-text. Stated third edition on the title page but this is likely the third edition from this publisher of Croxall's Aesop. Translated from the Greek into English by Samuel Croxall. With instructive applications. A small nick to the front board mellowing to the spine a few leaves with imperfections in the paper. T.O.H.P. Burnham hardcover
17981407258London: Printed for C. Dilly . et al. 1798. Sixteenth edition carefully revised and improved. Hardcover. 12mo xxiv 329 pages. In Fair plus condition. Spine is brown without print. Boards in brown leather; worn spine caps and corners torn hinges toning. Text block has cracked hinges light amount of occasional foxing creasing to corners of final pages tear to rear flyleaf. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece and text engravings. <br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #4. 1407258. FP New Rockville Stock. Printed for C. Dilly ... [et al.] hardcover
441057Frederick Warne and Co. Hardcover. Fair. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. A collection of Aesop's fables with extra 'applications morals &c' added on by a Reverend to further elucidate what kind of good behaviour the animals are modelling. With eighty black and white illustrations.Undated but with a school prize inscription dated '4/1/85'; from context and handwriting! this is probably 1885. Condition: Boards shelfworn corner bumped to card rubbed scratched slightly marked. Inscription to front pastedown. Decently heavy foxing and marks to interior but all pages remain clearly readable; binding is somewhat loose but intact. Frederick Warne and Co. hardcover
1916AVA1277London: Adam & Charles Black 1916. Hardcover. Good. Complete: twelve color plates. 1916 reprint. Hardcover no jacket with decorated board and spine. Exterior shelfworn. Interior clean and unmarked but some foxing throughout. Binding a bit shaken. Front endpaper removed and an owner's name inside. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available! Adam & Charles Black hardcover
1857h44381London: W. Kent & Co 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Undated title page but preface by Bennett dated October 1857. Small quarto 10.5 x 8.5 inches cloth backed pictorial paper-covered boards. This is the colored edition. Good with some discoloration mottling and rubbing to cloth spine boards with soil and darkening small stains corner bumping and corner wear contents mainly very good but with some bumping to upper outer corners of pages throughout. Bookplate of Francisci Stanton Carey and a few text pages have old and neat small patches on their blank versos. With colored frontispiece title page and 22 plates illustrating 22 fables. W. Kent & Co hardcover
1905190615-D01Moffat Yard & Company 1905. Good hardcover with color illustrations by J. M. Conde 275 pages damage to top of spine. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Cover. Illus. by Conde J. M. Moffat Yard & Company Hardcover
1883D2341London: Macmillan and Co. 1883. Hardcover. Good. Original pictorially stamped cloth; illustrated throughout. Cloth frayed or chipped at corners spine tips and here and there along joints; crack in the gutter at pp. 40-41 with binding just a bit shaken. Still a good reading copy with charming illustrations and details. <br/><br/> Macmillan and Co. hardcover
68-6467Berkeley CA: Elkus Press 1946. 12mo. String-bound wraps. 16 pp. Near Fine. Illustrated. Black & red ink. Uncut pages. Letterpress on rag.Kozlay's essay reprinted from The Lectures Of Bret Harte. Berkeley, CA: Elkus Press, 1946. paperback
193313775New York: Viking Press 1933. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Viking Press 1933. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth red topstain in cream pictorial dust jacket custom cloth slipcase; xii86pp.; woodcut frontispiece and illus. throughout pictorial endpapers printed in red. Dust jacket verso reinforced with archival paper heavy color touch-ups to extremities especially along top margin of front panel with evidence of prior shallow chips and tears along edges and various splits down folds; faint offsetting from woodcuts else Near Fine in a Very Good albeit overly-restored copy of the uncommon dust jacket. Signed by Artzybasheff without inscription on half title. Viking Press unknown
1930962T90London: Ward Lock and Co. Limited c1930. Cloth. Good. 10" by 7.5". Harry Rountree. A charming copy of this collection of Aesop's Fables retold with bright illustrations throughout. The Sunshine Series. Illustrated with sixteen colour plates. Collated complete. A collection of the fables of Aesop a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables characterized by anthropomorphic animal characters. This collection includes: Crying "Wolf" The Lion and The Mouse The Goose Who Laid Golden Eggs The Crow and The Snake and The Two Bags amongst others. Retold by Blanche Winder a British author of children's books. Illustrated by Harry Rountree a New Zealand-born illustrator noted for his prolific output in England around the turn of the twentieth century. Dated from the University of Oxford Libraries. In the original quarter cloth binding with pictorial paper covered boards. Externally sound with rubbing and light chipping to the extremities. The odd small mark to the boards with light discolouration to the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright with the odd small spot. Light spotting to the first and last few pages with age toning to the endpapers. Good Ward, Lock and Co., Limited hardcover
1875962F15London; Stockholm: Cassell Petter and Galpin; Familj-Journalens Boktryckeri-Aktiebolag 1875 . Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 12" by 9". Enerst Griset. A charming collection of two editions of Aesop's fables both featuring the striking illustrations of painter and illustrator Ernest Griset. Present here are two 1875 editions of Aesop's works both of which are illustrated by Ernest Griset.The first of these volumes is the scarce 1875 edition 'Aesopiska Fabler' the first Swedish language edition to feature Griset's illustrations with the text drawn from the editions of Binder Lafontaine Rundell etc.Illustrated with a frontispiece thirty plates and further vignette illustrations all the work of Griset. Collated complete.Also present is the 1875 second edition of J. B. Rundell's 'revised and re-written' edition of the fables illustrated with a frontispiece thirty-one plates and numerous further vignette illustrations from Griset. Collated complete.Contemporary inscription to front free endpaper of Swedish edition and to title page head of English edition.Both volumes are rebacked with original boards restored and back strip laid down retaining the original endpapers. Both volumes are housed in a clamshell box. Aesop's Fables are a collection of brief moral tales attributed to a storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece around the 6th century BCE. These tales typically feature animals as characters who embody human traits and behaviours teaching practical life lessons through their interactions. Classic fables like "The Tortoise and the Hare" "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" and "The Ant and the Grasshopper" use simple narratives to convey enduring wisdom about virtues such as perseverance honesty and hard work. Rebacked in the publisher's original cloth bindings with back strip laid down retaining the original boards and endpapers. Externally bright with instances of rubbing to board perimeters. In a fine clamshell case. Inscription to front free endpaper of Swedish volume and to title page head of English volume. Internally firmly bound. Leaves of English language volume bright with only the odd spot and with pages of Swedish volume lightly age toned but clean. Very Good Indeed Cassell, Petter and Galpin; Familj-Journalens Boktryckeri-Aktiebolag hardcover
1818mon0000147654Printed by E. Walker for T. Bewi 1818T. hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1823 Second Edition Walker Longmans on contemporary calf leather slightly rubbed and scratched outer boards but inner content excellent Printed by E. Walker for T. Bewi hardcover
FORT770347The Franklin Library. Used - Very Good. Fully-bound in leather with gilt decorations; Raised bands and gilt lettering on spine. Silk moire endpapers with matching sewn-in bookmark. All outer edges are gilt. The Franklin Library hardcover
05078London: Printed by H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow and are to be sold by Chr. Wilkinson Tho. Fox and Henry Faithorne 1687. The First Edition To Contain The Thirty-One Magnificent Full-Page Engravings<br/>Including The Rare Suppressed Plate Number Seventeen<br/>A Lovely Copy in Late Nineteenth Century Straight-Grain Roan<br/><br/>AESOP. Æsop's Fables with His Life: in English French and Latin. Newly Translated. Illustrated with One hundred and twelve Sculptures. To this Edition are likewise added Thirty one New Figures representing his Life. By Francis Barlow. London: Printed by H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow and are to be sold by Chr. Wilkinson Tho. Fox and Henry Faithorne 1687. <br/><br/>Second edition first published in 1666. Virtually all copies of the first edition were destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666. This is the first edition to contain the additional thirty-one full-page engraved plates.<br/><br/>Folio 11 3/4 x 7 9/16 inches; 300 x 195 mm. 2 blank verso engraved pictorial title 2 title verso blank 2 To the Reader verso blank 2 dedication 2 blank verso full-page engraving of Aesop surrounded by animals and birds 40 40 17 2-221 2 Table verso blank pp. Full page engraved plate of the arms of the Earl of Devonshire and thirty-one including the suppressed plate No. 17 "Oft for a jest we expose our modesty" which is often suppressed excised or defaced full page engraved plates by Thomas Dudley after Francis Barlow illustrating the life of Aesop and 110 half page engravings in the text. The thirty-one additional plates are bound within the forty pages of English text. These plates were engraved in 1678 - this second edition is the first to contain these superb engravings. <br/><br/>Bound ca. 1876 in full maroon straight-grain roan covers decoratively ruled and paneled in gilt spine with six raised bands elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments gilt-ruled board edges and decorative gilt turn-ins all edges gilt. <br/><br/>A sophisticated copy an example of the fashion towards the end of the 19th century of improving copies with a pencil note on the verso of the initial binder's blank "The best impressions were picked from two copies to make this a very choice copy of the book. Robert Roberts. Boston Oct 9/1876". The 17th plate "Oft for a jest we expose our modesty." which was often suppressed excised or defaced is here present and unmutilated. Neat pencilled presentation inscription dated 1925 to front free endpaper 1735 ink ownership signature at top margin of title-page. Small expert and almost invisible paper repairs to blank margins of engraved title page small hole 1/2 x 3/16 inch neatly repaired hardly affecting image on plate 14. Small neat marginal repairs to O2 pp. 35/36 V2 pp. 59/60 small hole repaired on BB2 pp. 79/80 - just touching image on recto and two letters on verso and top corner of EE2 pp. 91/92 expertly renewed with loss of page number on p.92. Occasional minimal light soiling and or foxing but overall a clean and crisp example of this magnificent and beautiful edition.<br/><br/>For this second edition of his magnificent production Barlow commissioned Aphra Behn then at the height of her popularity as a playwright poet and translator to write a quatrain summarizing the fable and to be engraved on the 110 plates illustrating the fables. In order to substitute Behn's verses for those of Thomas Philipot d. 1682 the lower area of the plate needed to be burnished down and the new verses engraved onto the plate in place of the earlier ones. "The workman doing the burnishing feared damaging the bottom border of the design above the verse: in many places traces of the tops of the letters in Philipot's top lines remain. In a few instances a small new plate for the new verse had to be inserted."Hodnett.<br/><br/>"I Conceive it necessary to say concerning the Present Edition of this Work; That it exceeds the Former by a careful Correction of the Latin Copy and by a more Exact Translation from the Latest and Best French Edition. The Life of Aesop likewise is illustrated with Thirty one new Copper Plates.<br/><br/>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." To the Reader leaf. <br/><br/>"The fables and plates are printed here in the same manner as in the first edition the French version on the verso of each leaf facing the plate and Latin version on the recto of the following leaf. The thirty-one additional plates illustrating the life of Æsop are placed at the end of the volume. They are preceded by the plate representing Æsop surrounded by animals and birds which formed the first plate to the first edition. Plate No. 17 is usually wanting being generally removed as too free a character. Nearly all of them are signed "Tho: Dudley fecit". Grolier Wither to Prior. <br/><br/>Francis Barlow 1626-1704 was the first English-born book illustrator. He was also the first English etcher modern animal and bird artist recorder of sporting scenes political cartoonist and possibly modern landscape artist. The lifelikeness of his animal and bird drawings prints and paintings attracted the admiration of the founders of the Royal Society and allied him with the scientific spirit of the seventeenth century. Barlow was moreover an interesting illustrator of great freshness and vigor." Edward Hodnett. Five Centuries of English Book Illustration p. 54.<br/><br/>"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" Morgan Library Early Children's Books - citing the 1666 first edition.<br/><br/>Felix Thornley Cobbold 1841-1909 was a British barrister and Liberal Party politician. Cobbold was the son of John Cobbold Member of Parliament for Ipswich and his wife Lucy daughter of Henry Patteson sometime Rector of Drinkstone and of Wortham Suffolk. John Cobbold Thomas Cobbold and Nathaniel Cobbold grandfather of Cameron Cobbold 1st Baron Cobbold were his elder brothers. He was educated at King's College Cambridge and later became a senior fellow of this college. Cobbold also sat as Member of Parliament for Stowmarket in Suffolk between 1885 and 1886 and for Ipswich between 1906 and his death. In 1895 he presented Christchurch Mansion to the town of Ipswich as part of an arrangement to preserve the mansion and surrounding Christchurch Park from development. He also bequeathed Gippeswyk Park to Ipswich. Cobbold died in December 1909 aged 68.<br/><br/>Grolier Wither to Prior 666; Hodnett Aesop in England pp. 56-59 and 72; Morgan Library Early Children's Books 9 describing the 1666 first edition; Wing A703; ESTC R22992. London: Printed by H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow, and are to be sold by Chr. Wilkinson, Tho. Fox, and Henry Faithorne, 1687 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
1998Q-1853261289Wordsworth Editions Ltd 1998-04-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Wordsworth Editions Ltd paperback
2005Q-1593083300Barnes & Noble Classics 2005-01-06. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Barnes & Noble Classics hardcover
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
1964962T73New York: Random House 1964. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9.5" by 6.5". Helen Siegl. A smart first edition of this illustrated collection of Aesop's fables retold by Russian-born American writer Anne Terry White. First edition of this collection. With the vanishingly scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with woodcuts 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. This collection contains: The Dog in the Manger The Fox and the Stork and The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs amongst others. Retold by Anne Terry White a Russian-born American writer and translator. Illustrated by Helen Siegl an Austrian-born American visual artist printmaker and illustrator. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with light wear and the odd small mark to the panels. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light spotting to the fore edge. Near Fine Random House hardcover
2001962T88London: Frances Lincoln 2001-2002. First edition. Hardback. Fine. 8.5" by 11". Jonathan Heale. Two very smart first edition volumes of this charming retelling of Aesop's fable The Tortoise and The Hare being the first hardcover and first softcover editions. Two volumes. The first hardcover 2001 and first softcover 2002 editions and first impressions of this retelling by Angela McAllister. Illustrated throughout with twelve full page colour images to each volume and numerous decorations. A delightful retelling of this story of a race between unequal partners originally attributed to Aesop. Being a variant of a common folktale theme in which ingenuity and trickery are employed to overcome a stronger opponent. Intended for children and young readers. Retold by Angela McAllister an English writer of books for children and young people best known as the author of The Little Blue Rabbit. Illustrated by Jonathan Heale an English painter illustrator and printmaker. The first hardcover is bound in the original pictorial paper covered boards with the first softcover being bound in the original pictorial card wraps. Externally excellent. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine Frances Lincoln hardcover
