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1887962F17London: Macmillan & Co 1887 . Leather. Near Fine. 12" by 9.5". Randolph Caldecott. A beautiful edition of Aesop's fables delightfully illustrated in colour by Randolph Caldecott and in a vibrant quarter morocco binding by Eric Sweet. This edition was first published in 1883.With vignette colour illustrations throughout by British artist and illustrator Randolph Caldecott a celebrated children's illustrator.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. The leaves of this volume have been washed.Bound by Eric Sweet in 2002 in a morocco backed marbled paper covered boards by Eric Sweet with endpapers renewed and housed in a cloth covered clamshell.Eric Sweet was a keen collector of private press and fables. He studied at the Brighton College of Art before moving to London to work as a lettering artist and typographer for advertising agencies later becoming the head of Birmingham School of Printing. Sweet's bindings are unique and striking reflecting the topics of the volumes in distinctive style. Rebound in morocco backed marbled paper covered boards by Eric Sweet with endpapers renewed. Housed in a cloth covered clamshell case. Externally fine. Internally firmly bound. The leaves of this volume have been washed. Pages exceptionally bright with instances of handling marks to page perimeters and the odd spot. Small closed tear to tail of one leaf. Near Fine Macmillan & Co hardcover
1995962T86Hampshire: Templar Publishing 1995. First edition. Hardback. Fine. 9.5" by 11.5". Ian Andrew. A very smart first edition of this illustrated fable from Aesop retold by British writer A. J. Wood. First edition retold by A. J. Wood. Very scarce edition. Illustrated throughout. A charming retelling of one of the classic fables attributed to Aesop The Lion and The Mouse. Exploring the moral of the story - that no being is so small or insignificant that it cannot aid a creature of greater importance. Retold by A. J. Wood a British author of children's books editor and illustrator. Illustrated by Ian Andrew a British illustrator noted for his black-and-white pencil illustrations. In the original paper covered boards. Externally excellent. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. With the original price sticker to the rear pastedown. Fine Templar Publishing hardcover
190925107London: Hodder & Stoughton 1909. Limited first edition of 750 copies numbered and signed by the artist. Illustrated with 25 beautiful plates in color by Edward J. Detmold including two extra plates not found in the trade edition. Thick folio publisher’s original full white polished buckram the upper cover artfully decorated with the original gilt pictorial designs surrounded by a frame ruled in gilt and filled with intertwined vines the spine handsomely gilt lettered and decorated with gilt device and gilt rules t.e.g. housed and protected in the original slipcase. A fine copy with just very light age mellowing at the spine panel the corners fine and sharp the plates all in excellent condition the text-block clean and white essentially a near as pristine copy in a protective slipcase. The slipcase with some wear as would be expected. The book profiting by the presence of the slipcase with the white cloth remaining clean and the giltwork very bright. FIRST EDITION LIMITED SIGNED NUMBERED AND SPECIALLY BOUND. This title represents in our opinion Detmold's very best work. The grace and sensitivity of the illustrations 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.<br> This is a very fine copy of the best printing of the work numbered and signed by Detmold. Hodder & Stoughton 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
020824Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company. Rare Book Collectors Original Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 198pp.; HB red w/gilt; no title on spine; some rub; PONft.endpaper; 3"tearhalf-title; pgs.15&49 detached not missingotherwise cleantight pgs. "with numerous illustrations. <br/> <br/> Albert Whitman & Company hardcover
182535545Paris 1825. avec le sens moral en quatre vers et les quatrains de benserade Couverture au dos est dommagée. Buchrücken im Falz lädiert. Insgesamt guter Zustand Auguste Boulland Quer-8°. Pbd. Literatur unknown
1667WRCLIT79851Amsterdam: Johannem Janssonium à Waesberge & viduam Elizei Weyerstraet 1667. 62462204pp. Octavo 18.5 x 12 cm. Contemporary vellum short-title in manuscript on spine. Engraved frontis by Christopher Ganes and 103 engraved half-page illustrations in text. Vellum somewhat handsoiled and darkened bookplate frontis trimmed close along fore- edge short marginal tear in H2 without loss otherwise very good. First and only printing of this well- illustrated edition of the adaptations by the Latin fabulist Phaedrus of the Greek fables of Aesop as edited by Johannes Laurentius. Two engravings at pages 133 and 194 have been supplanted by other tipped in engravings. The Fables are followed by an "index vocabularum" and an "index rerum & verborum." BRUNET IV:588. Landwehr EMBLEM BOOKS Low Countries F143. Johannem Janssonium à Waesberge & viduam Elizei Weyerstraet hardcover books
1979WRCLIT72880Charlottesville VA: Bibliographical Society of the Univ. of Virginia 1979. x163pp. Gilt cloth. Illustrations. First edition. Concordance bibliography and index. About fine without dust jacket. Bibliographical Society of the Univ. of Virginia hardcover books
22388William Heinemann London 1912. First edition thus. Coloured frontispiece and 12 coloured plates with lettered tissue guards. Title illustrations in b&w and other b&w plates. 8vo 8 1/4 x 6 inches 224-pages. Original green cloth pictorially blocked in gilt. Spine gilt a little dulled endpapers foxed name on front free endpaper. Overall very good. William Heinemann, London, 1912. hardcover
41495LONDON HODDER AND STOUGHTON 1981. THIS LEATHER-BOUND EDITION REISSUED IN 1981 AS A REPRODUCTION FROM THE ORIGINAL1909 EDITION IS LIMITED TO 500 COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 1. FINE IN RED DECORATED MOROCCO. A.E.G. WITH MATCHING SLIPCASE. ILLUSTRATED BY EDWARD DETMOLD. LONDON, HODDER AND STOUGHTON, 1981 hardcover
99973London Printed for John Stockdale 1793 1st thus. Tall hardback approx 11 x 7 inches. Halfbound maroon leather binding with maroon cloth to boards. Raised banding and gilt lettering to spine. Marbled page edges. In very good condition. Later leather binding with later endpapers. Repairs to cracked hinges along spine edges. Hinges are reinforced with cloth between endpapers. Some occasional mild foxing and handling marks. Plates with some mild foxing and offsetting to adjacent letterpress. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 2 vols in 1.: Lxv 189pp & xi 246pp. Illustrations complete with 112 B&W engraved plates includes decorative engraved title pages. Engraved by T. Stothard & W. Grainger. London Printed for John Stockdale, 1793 1st thus hardcover
91880London Hodder and Stoughton no date ca1909 1st. Hardback approx 10.5 x 8 inches. Light brown/tan cloth with gilt lettering to spine eagle illustration to front in red with green lettering and border to front. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor handling marks and minor rubbing to edges of cloth rubbing to bottom front edge some darkening to top page edges. Some darkening and mild foxing to prelims. Some light foxing spots to title contents pages and p1. Some dark foxing spots to outer page edges. Plates all very clean and bright all tissue guarded. Else a very good clean and tight 1st edition. 152pp. With 23 mounted colour plates and b/w illustrations in text by Edward J. Detmold. The original edition published in 1909 by Hodder & Stoughton. London, Hodder and Stoughton, no date ca1909 1st hardcover
1967BN63167Otto Maier Verlag 1967. Hardcover/gebunden. sehr gut erhalten fast wie neu! Otto Maier Verlag hardcover
1967BN17380Otto Maier Verlag 1967. Hardcover. ausgemustertes Büchereibuch foliert kaum bibliotheksspezifisch gekennzeichnet sehr gut erhalten! Otto Maier Verlag hardcover
1967BN6220Otto Maier Verlag 1967. Hardcover. Ecken minimal bestossen Seiten etwas nachgedunkelt insgesamt sehr gutes Exemplar! Otto Maier Verlag 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
2090502113705158Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1741ABC_45418London 1741. 8vo. for Claude du Bosci and sold by C. Davis Full calf over boards with gilt double ruling along the edges of both covers ribbed spine gilt binding edges. With engraved frontispiece by Claude Du Bosc Aesop communicating with the animals 100 engraved illustrating the 100 Fables ca. 96 x 110 inspired by the fable illustrations by Marcus Gheeraerts numerous head- and tailpieces by Henry Woodfall. 2 XVI 190 2 VI 3-191 pp. First edition of this lovely printed collection of the famous 100 Aesop fables originally translated in elegant Latin verses by Gabriel Faerno 1563 and now translated into English and French verses by Claude Du Bosc and Charles Perrault.Pope Pius IV convinced that reading the fables of Aesop was of great use in forming the morals of young children commissioned Gabriel Faerno whom he knew as an excellent poet as well as a man with a taste for elegant and beautiful Latinity to versify these fables so that children might learn at the same time and from the same book both moral and linguistic purity. Faerno 1510-1561 a scrupulous scholar and Latin poet from Cremona has been called a second Phaedrus by reason of the excellent style of his Fables though he never saw Phaedrus who did not come to our knowledge till above thirty years after his death.The French translation by Perrault had been published in 1699 for the first time.With ownerships entries in ink of Charlotte Biddulph one dated 1819. Hinges weak corners bumped slightly stained.l Bodemann 119.1; cf. 33.1 not in Fabula docet. hardcover
0394908953.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
20101-1606461478Audio Book Contractors Inc. 2010. Audio CD. New. 6.60x6.10x1.00 inches. Audio Book Contractors, Inc. unknown
20132-9888240528Minedition 2013. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition. 32 pages. 8.63x11.50x0.50 inches. Minedition hardcover
17011229424to. Amsterdam: Typographia Francisci Halmae 1701. 4to engraved general title letterpress red & black title page with allegorical engraved vignette. 18 full-page copper-engraved plates by Jan van Vianen each featuring six circular images and 38 in-text reproductions engraved decorative initials and head- and tailpieces. With the oversize fold-out engraved portrait of Joannes Gulielmus Prince of Nassau. Later polished calf c.1750 headcap repaired upper hinge repaired. § Phaedrus 15 BC - AD 50 Italy was a "Roman fabulist the first writer to Latinize whole books of fables producing free versions in iambic metre of Greek prose fables then circulating under the name of Aesop." Ency. Brit. This de luxe edition was especially created for the Prince of Nassau profusely illustrated with fine engravings. Dibdin spoke highly of it in his Greek and Latin Classics 4th edition: "I have always considered this as a correct and very sumptuous edition. It is ornamented with a great number of small plates or medallions in which the subject of the fable is very ably and spiritedly executed. The type is peculiarly rich and bold and is hardly equalled by any Dutch edition of a classic." p. 285. Landwehr F163. Typographia Francisci Halmae unknown books
122913London: for R. Sare B. Took M. Gillyflower A. & J. Churchil G. Sawbridge and J. Hindmarsh 1699. 2 vols. in one folio 10 28 8 476; 16 238 2 ads. pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait of L’Estrange by Roger White after Geoffrey Kneller and full page engraving of Aesop and animals both in vol. 1. Contemporary calf neatly rebacked and tips restored a clean very well-margined copy. Inscribed twice by John Bailward dated 1730 and a few pencil notes and sketches in the text. § One of the first collections of fables prepared specifically for children. Third edition corrected and amended from the 1692 edition. With the second part in first edition the two seldom found together. Roger L'Estrange 1616-1704 was Tory journalist and pamphleteer notorious for his censorship of “seditious†Whig publications in his role as Surveyor of the Press. His edition of Aesop was commissioned by a group of booksellers and appeared two years after Locke first recommended Aesop as a first reading book for children. Muir writes it was “the best and largest collection of fables in English and he had children especially in mind when making his compilation… He included many other fabulists besides Aesop notably a selection from La Fontaine within 20 years of the first appearance of any of his fables in French. It is highly probable that this was their earliest appearance in English.†The DNB notes of L’Estrange’s Aesop that it was “an assemblage of fables and facetiae from a variety of sources ancient and modern the second volume being wholly unAesopian. 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… This compilation also includes a biography of Aesop an alphabetical table of the fables and fables by Barlandus Anianus Abstemius Poggius and La Fontaine.†DNB. Wing A-709 and A-1247. Muir English Children’s Books p.24. for R. Sare unknown books
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 books
122936London : printed for J. Churchill at the Black-Swan in Pater-Noster-Row 1708. 8vo 8 xvi 326 2pp. With the final advertisement leaf. Old speckled calf upper cover rehinged a bit worn but internally very good. § First edition widely held in Institutions but very scarce in commerce -- the last copy sold was in 2004 £160. Foxon English Verse p.31. ESTC T84697. printed for J. Churchill unknown books
