1 307 résultats
1994963H2New York; London: North-South Books 1994 . First edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 13.5" by 9.5". Gisela Dürr. An artfully illustrated first edition of 17 of Aesop's best-known fables with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding.This volume comes with the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.This volume is a first edition.This edition contains 17 of Aesop's best-known fables including titles such as: "The Cat's Party" "The Tortoise and the Hare" "The Empty Head" "A Dress for the Moon" "The Fox and the Stork" "The Goose who Laid Golden Eggs" "The Lioness and the Vixen" and many more.Aesop was a storyteller who is thought to have lived in ancient Greece around the 6th century BCE. He is best known for his collection of fables featuring anthropomorphic animals that illustrate moral lessons of honesty wisdom and kindness. These fables have become enduring classics continuing to be shared with generation after generation. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally excellent. Dust wrapper very smart with just one or two minor handling marks. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine North-South Books hardcover
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
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
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
1936962Z12London: Ward Lock & Co 1936. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 10" by 7". Harry Rountree. Two copies of Blanche Winder's retelling of Aesop's fables beautifully illustrated with colour plates by Harry Rountree including the very scarce original dust wrapper. The Harry Rountree illustrated edition. Bound in the original cloth with pictorial boards and the original unclipped dust wrapper to one of the volumes. Illustrated by Harry Rountree with a coloured frontispiece and twenty-three coloured plates to both volumes. Collated complete. A charming illustrated collection of fables credited to Aesop a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. A two volume set featuring a complete copy and a smaller incomplete copy with the original dust wrapper. The smaller volume is lacking the pages after pp.44 but contains all twenty-four colour plates. One volume is re-backed and the other has been re-bound with the plates bound to the rear with the original spine bound to the front endpapers. Housed in a cloth clamshell box. In the publisher's original cloth re-backed with pictorial covers. The second volume is re-bound and includes the original unclipped dust wrapper. Housed in a cloth clamshell box. Externally very smart with minimal edge wear and the odd slight mark to the rear covers. Original cloth spine adhered to the front pastedown of the smaller volume. The wrap has archival repairs and a tidemark to the verso and minor creasing. Internally the slightest strain in places otherwise firm. Pages bright with the odd spot heavier to the front and rear. The clamshell has fading to the spine and joint. Very Good Indeed Ward, Lock & Co hardcover
1933962Z16New York; London: Charles Skilton; Viking Press 1933-48. Leather. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 6.5"; 8.5" by 5.5". Boris Artzybasheff. The first U.S and first UK editions of Boris Artzybasheff 's illustrated edition of Aesop's fables one copy in the original dust wrapper and the other beautifully bound by Eric Sweet in crushed quarter morocco. The true first American and UK editions of Boris Artzybasheff's illustrated edition of Aesop's fables. Bound by Eric Sweet 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.Illustrated with monochrome wood engraved frontispieces and monochrome wood engraved vignettes and full page illustrations. A two volume set. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper and the other copy bound in modern crushed quarter morocco with paper to the covers. Both housed in a cloth clamshell box. A charming illustrated collection of fables credited to Aesop a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. These editions were edited and illustrated by the American/ Russian illustrator Boris Artzybasheff. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper and the other copy bound in modern crushed quarter morocco with paper to the covers. Both housed in a cloth clamshell box. Externally lovely. The wrap is excellent with one small tear and slight handling marks. Internally bright to both and clean to '1933' and generally clean to '1948' with occasional light spotting. The clamshell is lovely with Eric Sweet's binder's label. Near Fine Charles Skilton; Viking Press hardcover
83537george g harrap & co 1927. First edition thus - New edition reset with new illustrations illus super octavo brown boards VGThis book has only minimal description. Please refer to our website for information on our definitions. More detail on request. george g harrap & co 1927 hardcover
1992Q-0152003509Harcourt Childrens Books 1992-10-01. Library Binding. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Harcourt Childrens Books unknown
1900031812UK: Warne 1900. New Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Harrison Weir. New Edition Circa 1900. Undated. Illustrated throughout with black and white engravings. The book is very good and bright. Edges lightly rubbed. Quite a tight binding. Contents good. Endpapers darkened. More images can be taken upon request. Ref12730##014688 <br/> <br/> Warne hardcover
1900044103New York: A. L. Burt 1900. Undated ca. 1900. Very good in chipped dustjacket. Illustrated with color plates and engravings. Green cloth with vivit color illustration mounted on the front cover 87 pages matching dustjacket. The book has light edge rubbing good hinges sound text block clean pages with no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket has some large chips that only barely affect lettering and only a small portion of the cover design some age-toning and soil to the white background of the rear panel. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A. L. Burt Hardcover
06629London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd 1936. The Fox and the Crow - Gooden's Masterpiece of Modern Book Illustration<br /> A Signed Limited Aesop in Vellum Finely Printed at Cambridge<br /> <br /> GOODEN Stephen illustrator. AESOP. Aesop's Fables. Translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange Kt. with plates & decorations by Stephen Gooden. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1936. <br /> <br /> Limited to 525 numbered copies this being No. 266 signed by Stephen Gooden.<br /> <br /> Small folio 10 x 7 inches; 254 x 178 mm. 311 1 limitation pp. Finely printed letterpress by Cambridge University Press under Walter Lewis. Copper plates engraved by A. Alexander & Sons London. Illustrated with twelve superb copper-engraved plates including a vignette title-page with original tissue guard.<br /> <br /> Publisher's full cream vellum covers ruled and decorated in gilt upper cover with central gilt fox spine with five shallow bands decorated and lettered in gilt marbled endpapers top edge gilt. Housed in the original pink/gray mottled paper-covered slipcase printed spine label with matching serial number in ink. A fine copy in a near fine slipcase.<br /> <br /> This 1936 Harrap Aesop stands among the great illustrated books of the interwar period - a harmonious collaboration of classical text elegant typography and masterful copper engraving.<br /> <br /> Stephen Gooden one of the finest British engravers of his generation brings to Aesop a line that is precise yet lively<br /> classical yet modern and perfectly suited to the moral clarity and wit of the fables<br /> <br /> Gooden's animals - foxes crows lions and asses - are rendered with quiet authority and restrained humor avoiding caricature in favor of timeless archetype. London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd, 1936 unknown
1985Q-0030020387Holt Rinehart and Winston 1985-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Holt, Rinehart, and Winston hardcover
1868000014790Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co 1868. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. 5 vi-xx 21-208 2 pp. Brown publisher's cloth with borders in blind on each board gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several full-page and in-text designs all in black and white. The illustrations bring the short stories to life. A dampspot on the rear board and light chipping to the spine. One gathering starting from the gutter. J.B. Lippincott & Co hardcover
1924962H14New York: John Martin's Book House 1924. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 10" by 7.5". George L. Carlson; W. Fletcher White. A charming copy of Aesop's classic fables accompanied by striking illustrations by George Leonard Carlson. In the publisher's original illustrated cloth binding.With 91 pages of wood engraved illustrations and decorations by George Leonard Carlson in his distinctive black-and-red silhouette-style. Collated complete.There are 39 fables in this work 15 of which are rewritten in verse to appeal to younger readers. Fables include: "The Stag at the Spring" "The Fox and the Grapes" "Sympathy" "The Field of Treasure" "Spilt Milk" "The Dog and his Shadow" "The Hare and the Tortoise" "The Lion and the Mouse" "The Cock and the Fox" "The Miser" and "The Cat and the Mice" to name a few.George Leonard Carlson 1887 - 1962 was an accomplished illustrator and artist with a prestigious portfolio of works perhaps the most famous being the dust jacket for Gone with the Wind. He is cited by Harlan Ellison as a "cartoonist of the absurd on a par with Winsor McCay Geo. McManus Rube Goldberg or Bill Holman." In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally smart. Slight rubbing to boards extremities and spine resulting in minor loss to illustrations and cloth. Small hole at tail of spine. Small spot of discolouration at head of spine. The odd handling mark to boards. Small closed tear at joint of front endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages slightly age toned but generally bright and clean otherwise. Previous owner's inscription to half-title "To Joe from Grandmother Bartley 1939". Minor offsetting to pages from illustrations. One or two handling marks and the odd spot. Very Good Indeed John Martin's Book House hardcover
19971-0295976411Univ of Washington Pr 1997. Hardcover. New. subsequent edition. 55 pages. 10.25x8.25x0.50 inches. Univ of Washington Pr hardcover
199752913Seattle: University of Washington Press 1997. Fine in near fine jacket. First edition thus re-issued with five new images of this beautifully illustrated take on Aesop's classic fables featuring stunning pen-and-ink illustrations by Lawrence "one of America's most celebrated artists." This book was originally published in 1970 and fell out of print before being redesigned for this new edition which features five additional illustrations by Lawrence. 10'' x 8''. Original black cloth stamping to front board lettered in red to spine. In original pictorial jacket. Grey endpapers. Illustrated throughout in black and white. 56 pages. Jacket with touch of edgewear and rubbing faintest toning to top edge of front panel. Interior fresh and bright. University of Washington Press unknown
199785803University of Washington Press. New. 1997. Hardcover. 0295976411 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 56 pages; 23 illustrations. -- with a bonus offer-- . University of Washington Press hardcover
1924365994New York: John Martin's Book House 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A children's book attractively printed in black and orange.<br /> <br /> Illustrated by George L. Carlson and W. Fletcher White. First edition no statement of later printings. Mounted paper label on front cover with surface wear especially at the edges thus very good lacking the scarce dust jacket. With a few small stray pen marks in the text. John Martin's Book House hardcover
1985102885Holt Rinehart and Winston 1985. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. SIGNED by author on title page. The best copy currently being offered online. Clean tight and bright pictorial boards. Dust jacket is preserved in an archival grade Mylar sleeve. GIFT QUALITY COPY! Ships from the U.S. can ship int'l. TRACKING INCLUDED ON ALL DOMESTIC AND PARTICIPATING INT'L DESTINATIONS. Other titles available in this and other like series. Please inquire. We would be happy to pull and list items upon request. 100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEE ON ALL PURCHASES.TRUST AN EXPERIENCED DEALER WITH 30 YEARS IN THE CHILDREN'S BOOK TRADE! Trust an experienced independent bookseller since 1988. Orders are shipped daily via USPS with delivery confirmation. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston hardcover
19292082702114909669Kindai-sha 1929. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 570p Plate size: 20cm Kindai-sha paperback
2000212162New York: SeaStar Books 2000. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 87 pages. Features color illustrations by Pinkney accompanying Aesop's fables. A clean near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine and in a near fine price clipped dust jacket. Signed by Pinkney on the title page. SeaStar Books unknown
193199384William Heinemann. London. 1931. William Heinemann. 1931. Reprint. Hardback. No DW. Navy cloth decorated in light blue worn to extremities and slightly spotted and stained. Coloured frontis. plus 12 coloured plates all with captioned tissue guards. 5 plates in b/w and numerous illustrations to text. Pages browned prize inscription to front pastedown. Generally a clean and sound copy. hardcover
1912104155William Heinemann. London. 1912. William Heinemann. 1912. First edition trade. Hardback. No DW. Green cloth decorated in gilt spine slightly knocked extremities lightly rubbed. Coloured frontis. plus 12 coloured plates all with captioned tissue guards. 5 plates in b/w and numerous illustrations to text. Endpapers browned gift inscription to blank of prelims. Generally a very clean and sound copy of this lovely edition. hardcover
