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06285London: William Heinemann 1912. Arthur Rackham Illustrates Aesop's Fables<br /> First Trade Edition<br /> <br /> RACKHAM Arthur. Aesop's Fables. A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton and Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann 1912. <br /> <br /> First trade edition. Small square octavo 8 x 5 7/8 inches; 202 x 149 mm. xxix 1 blank 223 1 pp. Thirteen color plates including frontispiece with captioned tissue guards fifty-three black and white drawings of which nineteen are full page. <br /> <br /> Publisher's green cloth front cover and spine pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt lower cover with publisher's blind stamp pictorial end-papers printed in green top edge stained green. Spine slightly darkened extremities of cloth slightly rubbed inner hinges cracked but sound. A good copy only.<br /> <br /> "In Aesop's Fables 1912.Rackham's primary intention was to amuse but his illustrations for fables of 'The Moon and her Mother' and 'The Gnat and the Lion' suggest the imaginative refinement that he brought to the task. Rackham was often his own model; there are several self-caricatures to be detected in Aesop's Fables. He is the man who catches the flea the pompous gentleman who scoldsd the drowning boy the credulous slave-owner who scrubs the black boy" Hudson Derek. Arthur Rackham His Life and Work p. 94.<br /> <br /> Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC.<br /> <br /> The 1st century AD philosopher Apollonius of Tyana is recorded as having said about Aesop: ". like those who dine well off the plainest dishes he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then too he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events" Philostratus Life of Apollonius of Tyana Book V:14.<br /> <br /> Latimore and Haskell pp. 38-39; Riall p. 111. London: William Heinemann, 1912 unknown
1912187472London: William Heinemann 1912. Fables and fairy tales Signed limited edition number 379 of 1450 copies signed by the artist. It is also the first edition of this translation by Vernon Jones. "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form which is after all the basic device of the morality is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.' Rackham's genius is such that it bridges the two and carries the didactic fable into the realm of fairy story and lends to the imaginative world of fairies a tangible and convincing reality" Gettings pp. 83-84. Quarto. Frontispiece and 12 plates all in colour and tipped to brown art paper with tissue guards captioned in brown as issued 19 full-page black and white illustrations line drawings in the text. Original white cloth spine and front cover lettered and pictorially stamped in gilt top edge gilt others uncut. Bookplate of Cecily Mary Severne 1889-1981. Spine toned light soiling to cloth endpapers browned occasional foxing. A very good copy. Riall p. 111. Fred Gettings Arthur Rackham 1976. hardcover
06684London: William Heineman 1912. Where Ancient Fable Meets Arthur Rackham's Enchanted Imagination<br /> The Signed Limited Edition of Aesop's Fables 1912<br /> <br /> RACKHAM Arthur. AESOP. Aesop's Fables. A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton and Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann 1912. <br /> <br /> Limited to 1450 numbered copies signed by the artist this being copy no. 1103.<br /> <br /> Large quarto 11 7/16 x 8 7/8 inches; 291 x 227 mm. xxix 1blank 223 1 pp. Thirteen color plates mounted on heavy brown paper with captioned tissue guards and fifty-three black and white text drawings. <br /> <br /> Publisher's white buckram front cover and spine pictorially stamped in gilt top edge gilt others uncut. Spine very slightly darkened otherwise a very fine copy the gilt bright and fresh.<br /> <br /> Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC.<br /> <br /> The 1st century AD philosopher Apollonius of Tyana is recorded as having said about Aesop: ". like those who dine well off the plainest dishes he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then too he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events" Philostratus Life of Apollonius of Tyana Book V:14.<br /> <br /> Lattimore and Haskell pp. 38-9. Riall p. 111. London: William Heineman, 1912 unknown
2003Q-0794504094Usborne Pub Ltd 2003-12-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Usborne Pub Ltd paperback
1933963Z19London: Ward Lock & Co. Limited c1933. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4.5". Arthur Cook; Harry Rountree. Blanche Winder's retelling of the fables of Aesop in the very scarce original dust wrapper eautifully illustrated by Harry Rountree. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped very scarce dust wrapper illustrated by Harry Rountree.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece by Arthur Cooke. Blanche Winder's retelling of the fables of Aesop a collection of fables credited to Aesop a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. Undated dated by the prize label to the front. In the original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally excellent with the slightest wear to the tail of the spine. Prize bookplate to the front pastedown with offsetting to the endpapers. The wrap has the odd spot and handling mark to the rear minor sunning to the spine and tape repairs and spotting to the verso. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with only the odd spot to the front. Near Fine Ward, Lock & Co., Limited hardcover
1990104558Santa Cruz CA: Peter and Donna Thomas. As New in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. Hardcover in full green title stamped suede in gilt titled slipcase. Printed in a limitation of 50 copies this being #6; each fable Illustrated by Donna Thomas on facing; printed in letterpress by Peter Thomas on hand-made paper. 12mo. Unpaginated. Fine . Peter and Donna Thomas hardcover
1998Q-0670875244Viking Juvenile 1998-01-31. hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Viking Juvenile hardcover
143514483X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
DADAX143514483XBarnes & Noble 0000-00-00. First Edition. hardcover. New. 6.18x1.50x9.37. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Barnes & Noble hardcover
19500188-nnew. unknown
20142091202132801508Tozanbo International Tozanbo Planning 2014. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 95p Size: 25cm Number of books: 1 Tozanbo International Tozanbo Planning paperback
195394320William Heinemann 1953. Hard cover. Very good/Very good. Jacket is rubbed and tanned not affecting legibility. Some stains on jacket front cover not affecting legibility. Circle cut out of jacket spine. Cover corners are lightly bumped. Tanned circle on spine where circle is cut out of jacket. Spine is slightly shaken but binding is secure. Edges of text block are foxed. Endpapers are foxed. Pages are tanned and foxed but images are bright and text is bright and legible. William Heinemann unknown
2090502113705158Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
17935806London: John Stockdale 1793. First Stockdale Edition. First Stockdale Edition. Two Volumes. Quartos. Bound in full 19th Century polished calf with filet gilt ruled lines at intricate gilt tooled spines two morocco labels each volume. The rather scarce first Stockdale Edition featuring 110 superb wood-engraved plates 2 title-page vignettes as called for. Both volumes with front cover displacement and in need of a binder. Otherwise very nice interior. Priced accordingly. John Stockdale unknown
1667745Amsterdam: Laurentius 1667. Hardcover. Fair. 1st edition thus of Aesop's Fables as printed by Laurentius in 1667 and including over 100 engravings; this copy with the explicit engravings pages 276 and 279 depicting a brothel unaltered which is rare due to centuries of censorship to the rather coarse illustrations. The completeness of this edition is often mentioned for its completeness as it contains ninety-two of the Phaedrus fables. Each fable is richly annotated. About Aesop's Fables - Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Bibliographic Details - Universal Short Title Catalogue USTC number 1804349 found in 13 of the world's best libraries. Richly referenced. One of my favorites for its simplicity comes from Greg Carlson the Carlson Fable Collection online and he writes of this edition: We have a title-page and the glorious frontispiece featuring a Roman Emperor Phaedrus and Aesop. Bodemann #75.1 notes the number of dedications that open the book. The illustrations for each fable are uniformly just over 3½"" by 2¾"". According to Bodemann they have few known sources. They tend to portray several phases of a fable at once; for example on 43 we see in the foreground the stag admiring his image in the water. Further back and to the right we see the dogs catching the stag as the hunter stands by. Similarly we see both phases of FS on 78. The illustrations are strong and well preserved. They were printed in a separate phase from the texts as is clear for example on 25 where the illustration overlaps the bottom of the title. I seem to remember many of the images from various sources like the dramatic pose of the Aesop statue on 128. Page 194 has a second illustration pasted in over the original illustration for III 12 ""Pullus ad Margaritam."" The same on 205 for ""Canis ad Agnum"" III 15. Several fables like V 2 seem to have some lines expurgated and replaced with asterisks. I am unsure why. The fables are followed by significant sections of ""Variae Lectiones"" ""Notae Guyeti"" ""Vocabulorum"" and an ""Index Rerum et Verborum."" The final page has a list of errata. Physical Attributes - Measures approx. 11.5 x 19 x 3.5 cm. Mottled leather binding of the 18th century style. Boards with a single gilt fillet frame. Spine with four raised bands; four compartments with a central gilt flower stamp and one with the title in gilt but the gilt is largely lost as the mottling has reduced the outer layer of the leather. The text block edges are sprinkled red. Top-edge is darkened. Double endbands of white and blue. Illustrated; bibliographies record 103 engravings. I did personally check the collation signed numbers at the bottom of each page and this copy is complete including the often lost two blank leaves at the rear I shined a light through to make sure they matched the 6th leaf in the gathering. Pages - 32 leaves of prefatory material signed to 8 462 numbered pages ending on Ff7verso leaves signed Ff8 to end TT8 are index. Collation - to 8 A-Z8 Aa-Tt8 Condition - See pictures. Some loss of leather where mottled some loss of gilt. Still the binding is performing well. Some small wear to leather at board edges. Rubbing on back board. Start of a crack at ends of joints. Hinge is cracked inside exposing ties/crash at gutter. Pastedown and flyleaf with pasted stamped written and erased bibliographic and shelf mark annotations. Blank bookbinder's endpaper shaken slightly loose and proud. Text block with some toning and occasional rust spots candle ember mark and thumb throughout. Top corner Y3 chipped away no text affected. Small ink spot along fore-edge at rear; just shows on printed page fore-edge margin. Mostly a nice copy; very few thumbs I saw just several no page edge chips and no annotations. Laurentius
Q-0870990292Little Brown & Co 1964. hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Little Brown & Co hardcover
1868962H31London: Frederick Warne and Co. c1868 . Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 6.5" by 5". Various. A very scarce edition of The Fables of Aesop translated by Samuel Croxall featuring eighty woodcut illustrations. In the publisher's original in mahogany cloth binding with blind stamp decorations. Undated dated from inscription from previous owner. This edition is notable for featuring eighty woodcut illustrations alongside two hundred and two fables. These fables include titles such as "The Frog and the Ox" "The Peacock and the Crane" "The Lion in Love" "The Wolf and the Lamb" "The Fox Without a Tail" "The Fox and the Lion" The Wolf and the Crane" "The Wolves and the Sheep" "The Cock and the Jewel" and "The Boy and the Nettle" to name a few. This copy has 14 pages of the publisher's advertisements to rear cataloguing their popular novels priced at one shilling each. 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 very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities and spine. Very slight cockling to rear panel. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two handling marks and spots towards fore edge. Very Good Indeed Frederick Warne and Co. hardcover
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1553104563Near Fine. 1553. Hardcover. Apud Inclytam Granatam. minse Februario. M D. LIII. 1553 Bound in modern green gilt stamped morocco. Engraved portal design title page. Fables and all text in latin. small 8vo. 32 pp. Near fine. . hardcover
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