Aesop; Samuel Croxall [trans]Biblio.com
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1722962F34DLondon: J. Tonson and J. Watts 1722 . First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 6.5". Elisha Kirkall; G. van der Gucht. The very scarce first edition of Samuel Croxall's translation of the fables of Aesop illustrated throughout and in a handsome full calf binding. The very scarce first Croxall translation of this work.Illustrated with a frontispiece by G. Van der Gucht and with vignette woodcuts throughout by Elisha Kirkall.Samuel Croxall was an Anglican churchman writer and translator particularly noted for this translation of Aesop's Fables.ESTC T84707With an index to the rear.Rebacked retaining the contemporary calf boards with gilt detailing and with endpapers renewed.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.Housed in a cloth clamshell box lined with felt. Rebacked in a contemporary calf binding with gilt detailing and with endpapers renewed. Housed in a felt-lined cloth clamshell box. Externally excellent. Neat repair to front board head. Clamshell in fine condition. Internally firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned with the odd spot most concentrated to the first and last few leaves. Very Good Indeed J. Tonson and J. Watts hardcover
17861001F2London: J. F. and C. Rivington 1786 . Leather. Fair. 7" by 4.5". Not Stated. Illustrated throughout with vignette woodcuts this is a late 18th century example of Samuel Croxall's edition of the fables of Aesop. The thirteenth Croxall edition of Aesop's fables.Illustrated with vignette woodcuts throughout. Collated lacking the frontispiece.Samuel Croxall was an Anglican churchman writer and translator particularly noted for his translation of Aesop's Fables in 1722.ESTC T84702Aesop'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. In a full calf binding with significant rubbing to back strip joints and board perimeters. Front joint starting to head and tail with board firmly held. Lacking front and rear free endpapers and blanks. Ink marks to title page final leaf and rear pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages age toned with handling marks and spots throughout. Ink marks to title page and final leaf. The majority of vignette illustrations have been partially hand coloured by prior owners. Paper restoration to twenty-one leaves with significant loss of text to six leaves. Lacking frontispiece. Fair J. F. and C. Rivington hardcover
171429251London: Sawbridge; B. Tooke; and G. Strahan. Poor with No dust jacket as issued. 1714. 6th Edition Corrected. First Printing. Unbound. Contents include: The Preface Frontispiece of portrait of LEstrange missing; Life of Aesop 29 pages; the index; Section of Fables 550 pages 548 as follows: Aesop Barlandus Anlanus Abstemius Poggius and Miscellany Fables. No. 500 missing - supplied with print-out . Covers lacking. Binding copy. . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 548 pp . Sawbridge; B. Tooke; and G. Strahan unknown
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
19311709731931. SOUR GRAPES! CALDER Alexander. Fables of Aesop. with an original drawing by Calder. 6 124 10 pp. illustrated with 50 line-block reproductions after pen-and-ink drawings by Calder. 4to 255 x 195 mm. bound in publisher's over boards in the original cardboard slipcase in a new half morocco folding box. Paris: Harrison of Paris 1931. The publisher's copy of the deluxe issue of Calder's most significant book illustrated with figures from Aesop constructed in the same style as his imaginary Circus figures and in his wire portraits and statues that dominated his creative output during the 1930s. This copy has an original signed Calder drawing for "The fox and the grapes" one of the more elaborate images in the book. The deluxe issue is especially sought after being exquisitely printed on Spanish handmade paper incorporating coloured silk-threads. The Calder drawings for Aesop are creative and playful marking this as a major example of modern book illustration. This is the fifth publication of Monroe Wheeler's Harrison of Paris publishing firm. One of 50 copies on Spanish Guarro paper with an original drawing also with the original paper knife laid in. PROVENANCE: This copy belonged to Monroe Wheeler with his book plate. The Artist and the Book 47. Museum of Modern Art 120. hardcover
1931159579Paris: Harrison of Paris 1931. In the original slipcase with the elusive paper-knife First Calder edition limited issue number 262 of 595 copies on Auvergne paper from a total edition of 665 scarce retaining both the slipcase and the paper-knife. The text of the present edition is based Roger L'Estrange's ground-breaking translation of Aesop's Fables 1692. Harrison of Paris was founded by publisher and heiress Barbara Harrison Wescott 1904-1977 and art patron and curator Monroe Wheeler 1899-1988 in 1930. Wheeler designed this book the pale blue covers of which were made from schoolchildren's aprons Becker p. 62. The illustrator Alexander Calder came from a long line of sculptors and first took up printmaking after moving to Paris in 1926 where he befriended Marcel Duchamp Fernand Leger Joan Miró and Piet Mondrian. Quarto. Illustrated throughout by Alexander Calder. Original light blue paper-covered boards front cover lettered in dark blue with Calder illustration edges untrimmed endleaves uncut. With the original paper knife loosely inserted. Housed in the original red card chemise and slipcase. A touch of foxing to wrappers faint offsetting from paper-knife on half-title. A near-fine copy a little wear to slipcase. David P. Becker Drawings for Book Illustration 1980. hardcover
194029149HBDJ 1940 1st Edition THUS EARY ISSUE REPRINT VG to GOOD with some wear. Back DJ Mentions over 950 Vols ends with ZOLA Tanning to pgs Blue embossed cloth book measures 4 ¼ x 6 ¾ and exhibits slight wear in the form of small tears and small missing pieces of the dustcover The pages are intact and tight. SCUFF RUB TINY CHIPS SPINE DJ 231 PGS It consists of Aesop type fables from different sources: Caxton James Phaedrus Hitopadesa Barlandus Avianus Abstemius Pilpay Tolstoi and others. INCLUDES 2 Wallets Ant & Grasshopper Swallow & Raven Old Man & Death The Astronomer ETC<br /><br /> EVERYMAN‘S LIBRARY DENT DUTTON LONDON made in GB hardcover
1814961P59Gainsborough: H. Mozley 1814. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 6.5" by 4"; 7.5" by 4.5". Thomas Bewick. A very scarce edition of Aesop's fables spelt as "Esop" here a smart edition with reproductions of Bewick's woodcuts. A very scarce edition of Aesop's fables published by H. Mozley in Gainsborough.Smartly bound in a modern quarter calf binding with marbled paper to the boards in a custom cloth slipcase bound by Eric Sweet in November 2006 with renewed endpapers. Slipcase is in a fine conditionThe fables of Aesop here translated and edited by Samuel Croxall.Aesop's Fables is a selection of fables generally attributed to the Ancient Greek storyteller Aesop who lived around 620 BCE-564 BCE. The fables are moral tales that guide in religious and secular aspects of life following adventure of many different creatures.Engraved after Bewick with a head-piece to each fable. Bewick's woodcuts of 'Fables' is one of his best known works and spent almost his entire creative career producing various editions of illustrated Aesop the first of which was published in 1776.Croxall was noted for this edition of 'Fables' for his easy colloquial style and their instructive applications a popular and oft-reprint translation.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.Collated bound without the final leaf of the index. In a modern quarter calf binding with marbled paper to the boards with renewed endpapers in a custom cloth slipcase bound by Eric Sweet. Externally fine. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with scattered spots. Neat archival repairs to the text including to the title-page and other pages of text with no loss more significant repair to page 53/54 with loss of text. Bound without the final leaf of the index. Slipcase is fine. Very Good Indeed H. Mozley hardcover
179319695London: John Stockdale 1793. FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE. Gay Vol. II includes the advertisement leaf following the title page and publisher's advertisement on verso of final text leaf for an edition of Barlow's Aesop and Stockdale fables of Aesop no dates noted. Engraved title page in each volume plus 112 plates in the Aesop and 70 plates in Gay 12 by William Blake; plates with blank leaves as guards. A large paper copy bound in polished mottled calf with matching flyleaves gilt-ruled around the edges and inner dentelles gilt decorated spine. All edges gilt. Interior has some light offsetting from plates as usual. First edition first issue of both works with the long "s" throughout. An exquisite set. John Stockdale unknown
170846353London: R. Sare Et Al. Very Good-. 1708. Hardcover. Two volumes. Contemporary panelled calf spine bands gilt decor. V1 includes the engraving of L'Estrange and after the preface the engraving of Aesop among his animals. VI: Two blanks Frontis title page preface engraving pp. 1-550; 1ad two blanks. Mild edgewear to boards outer hinges cracked but holding small losses to spine ends. Scattered foxing. V2: two blanks title page errata "to the Reader" table pp. 1-266 6pp books printed for Richard Sare. Similar condition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . R. Sare, Et Al hardcover
170889232Printed for R. Sare A. and F Churchil D. Brown T. Goodwin M. Wotton F Nicho January 1708. Hardcover. Very Good. both volumes tight and clean except that volume 2 has cracks to spine and heavily browned first and last pages Printed for R. Sare, A. and F Churchil, D. Brown, T. Goodwin, M. Wotton, F Nicho hardcover
299Verona: Officina Bodoni 1972. Limited Edition. Fine. Octavo 9 7/8 x 6 1/2 in 250 x 165 mm; 2 volume set in slipcase. Vol. 1 pp. 280 with 68 hand-colored woodcuts; Vol. 2 pp. 120. Set in Centaur type and printed on hand-made Magnani paper with goose watermark. Original morocco-backed vellum with strapwork border and title in gilt t.e.g. remaining uncut; number 146 of 160 sets; text in Latin Italian and English. Woodcut illustrations by Anna Bramanti after Liberale da Verona ALL HAND-COLOURED AFTER A COPY OF THE 1479 EDITION IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM BY THE ATELIER DANIEL JACOMET OF PARIS list of woodcuts loosely inserted. <br /> Mardersteig 182. An exquisite and beautifully-executed edition of Aesop's FABLES richly illustrated with newly-cut wood engravings after a copy of the 1479 edition in the collection of the British Museum whose woodcuts are attributed to Liberale da Verona 1441-1526. The illustrations are beautifully carved and hand-colored with a rich scale of colors and shadings that remind us of illuminated miniatures.<br /> <br /> The Latin text comes from the Giovanni Alvise 1479 edition and was translated from the Greek by the Veronese poet Accio Zucco who possibly also used some earlier medieval translations. Each fable is followed by two sonnets by Zucco: the first tells the story Sonetto materiale and the second point the moral of the fable Sonetto morale. For this edition the Latin and Italian texts were revised by the philiologist Giovanni Battista Pighi. <br /> <br /> The second volume contains the William Caxton translation 1484 into English of the first 60 fables. The remaining 6 fables are here translated from Latin by Betty Radice. Prefatory note by Tanya and Hans Schmoller who carried out the revision of the text. <br /> <br /> Vol. 1 frontispiece: "THE FABLES OF AESOP. Printed from the Veronese edition of MCCCCLXXIX in Latin verses and the Italian version by Accio Zucco with the woodcuts newly engraved and coloured after a copy in the British Museum." Vol. 2 frontispiece: "The first three books of CAXTON'S AESOP containing the fables illustrated in the Verona Aesopus of MCCCLXXIX"<br /> <br /> Commenting on the making of this edition Giovanni Madersteig wrote: "At the end of the epilogue I examine the different illustrated editions of the fables printed in Italy during the fifteenth century. This comparison proves that the Verona Aesop was the model for all of them. Even the better-known Aesop from Naples printed by Tuppo contains quite a number of scenes with the same composition but in mirror image. The watermark of the goose which identifies the paper used in the first edition of the Aesop and in other Veronese books as having come from Toscolano was revived for this and other books printed at the Officina Bodoni." Barr John. The Officina Bodoni Montagnola Verona: Books Printed By Giovanni Mardersteig on the Hand Press 1923-1977. London: The British Library 1978. pp. 170-174<br /> <br /> Giovanni Mardersteig Weimar 1892 - Verona 1977 was a printer and typographer who as head of Officina Bodoni created books exemplifying the highest standards in the art of printing. The press began in 1922 in Montagnola Switzerland and moved to Verona in 1927. It printed and published some 200 books and pamphlets including Politian's Favola d'Orfeo; Shelley's Epipsychidion Shakespeare's Tempest and Dante's Vita nuova. There are good collections in many major European and American libraries. The Bodleian Library at Oxford holds a particularly rich collection. Following Mardersteig's death in 1977 his son Martino Mardersteig took over and still occasionally used the Officina Bodoni imprint for works he printed on his father's hand-presses. Officina Bodoni unknown
17247417London: Printed for D. Brown et al. 1724. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 1229i.e. 33115502pp. Index of the fables. Leaf of ads for the publisher at rear and another leaf of ads for the author following his "Life of Aesop." Illustrated with a copper engraved frontispiece portrait and 1 copper engraved plate. Cont. calf worn nicely rebacked gilt decorated spine with red morocco label. Title page and top margin of frontis. with some old soiling. Faded water stain at lower outer corner of about 20 leaves near rear. Occasional light foxing. Ownership signature on front pastedown dated 1750. Printed for D. Brown et al. hardcover 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
1704014207London: R. Sare et al 1704. together with: "FABLES AND STORYES MORALIZED. BEING A SECOND PART OF THE FABLES OF AESOP. R.Sare London 1699. Twenty-eight page "Life of Aesop" in front of the book.Rear cover is detached. Noted in an old hand rear endpaper and laid-in card. Contemporary panelled covers worn. See photos. Frontispiece portrait of L'Estrange and full-page engraving of Aesop surrounded by animals from his fables. Wide margins clean text. Slightly darker toned paper used in rear 1/3 of the tome. . Fourth Edition Corrected and Amended. Full Contemporary Calf. General Cover Wear/No Jacket. Tall Quarto. R. Sare, et al Hardcover books
18648464Boston. T.O.H.P. Burnham. 1864. Bound in blind embossed gilt titled cloth. Thick 12mo 5.5" x 7". Illustrated with 198 woodcuts en texte. Spine well sunned covers mildly sunned and rubbed. Headpiece chipped. Ink inscription to ffep. Light water staining to bottom corners throughout very seldom reaching text block. Volume presents slight lean. Several signatures slightly shaken but very firm. A Good crisp bright copy. T.O.H.P. Burnham. hardcover books
1875RO60008046William P. Nimmo. 1875. In-16. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos frotté, Intérieur bon état. 288 pages. Reliure d'éditeur rouge avec motifs décoratifs noirs et dorés sur le dos et le 1er plat. Gravure en couleur en frontispice. 1er plat et pages de garde se détachant.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
1788WAS38893J.F. and C. Rivington et al. London 1788. Good: moderate overall wear to binding; small piece torn from margin of C3 affecting approximately 10 letters gathering P partially sprung. fourteenth Edition 6 3/4 x 4 inches xxxiv 329 7 index pages contemporary calf with red morocco spine label Includes engraved frontispiece and 196 woodcut illustrations each measuring 2 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches in pagination. Neat ink owner inscription dated 1796 on front free endpaper. J.F. and C. Rivington, et al., London unknown books
344 p. Illustrated by numerous woodcuts. Foxed. 12mo. Worn original decorated full blue cloth binding. Very unusual illustrated mid-19th century American Aesop. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SMALL BOX 5
1931215926Paris: Harrison 1931. Limited. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Calder Alexander. Illustrated with fifty drawings by Alexander Calder. 124pp. Tall thin 8vo original boards with blue printed d.w wrappers slightly foxed; uncut edges 2-piece red board slipcase is broken. Paris: Harrison of Paris 1931. A near fine copy in a good slipcase.<br/><br/> From a total edition of 615 copies printed on Auvergne hand-made paper this is one of only 20 marked "not for sale". The fifth publication of Harrison of Paris.<br/><br/> Harrison unknown books
1931183084Paris & New York: Harrison Minton Balch and Company 1931. With an original signed drawing First edition limited issue number XXVII of 50 copies with a tipped-in original published drawing signed by the artist. The drawing in this copy is from the Cock and Diamond fable. The text of the present edition is based on Roger L'Estrange's translation of Aesop's Fables 1692. Harrison of Paris was founded by publisher and heiress Barbara Harrison Wescott 1904-1977 and art patron and curator Monroe Wheeler 1899-1988 in 1930. The illustrator Alexander Calder came from a long line of sculptors and first took up printmaking after moving to Paris in 1926 where he befriended Marcel Duchamp Fernand Leger Joan Miró and Piet Mondrian. Quarto. Illustrated throughout with line drawings by Alexander Calder on Guarro's Spanish pure rag paper with coloured silk threads. Original paper-covered boards front cover lettered in black edges untrimmed endleaves uncut. With the original glassine dust jacket and the original paper knife loosely inserted. Housed in the original red card chemise and slipcase with printed label to front cover. A few small marks to boards; glassine jacket a little chipped tape repair to rear jacket; slipcase a little toned: a near-fine copy. hardcover
7693Paris, 2004 Seuil 174 p., broché. 11 x 18
22033<p>Transmises oralement jusqu’au IVe siècle, ces fables ont connu un succès phénoménal tout au long de l’Antiquité, servant tout autant de bon mot dans les banquets que de sagesse populaire dans les institutions civiques.</p> Paris, 2019 Belles Lettres 256 p., 21 illustration N/B, broché à rabats. 13 x 19,5
194135131Paris l'Emblme du Secr 1941 In-4, maroquin noir, encadrement de filets dors sur les plats, dos quatre nerfs orn de filets dors, filets or sur les coupes; encadrements intrieurs orns de filets dors s'entrelaant aux angles, doublures et gardes de soie moire rouge grenat, doubles gardes de papier mordor, tranches dores sur brochure, couverture imprime. Etui (Charles Septier).Nouvelle traduction augmente la fin de chaque fable de quatrains et illustre par Andr Collot de 41 compositions dont 20 gravures hors texte en taille-douce et 21 vignettes in texte graves sur bois en deux teintes. Tirage limit 242 exemplaires numrots. Un des 170 exemplaires sur vlin d'Arches comprenant une suite de dcomposition des couleurs des 21 vignettes.
28628Paris Jean de Bonnot 2002 in 8 (21x14,5) 1 volume reliure plein cuir noir ornée de l'éditeur, tête dorée, dos lisse orné et titré en doré à l'or fin 22 carats, XV et 343 pages et 116 illustrations (N°I-CXVI [2], papier vergé filigrané. Traduction de Jean Baudoin. Réédition de l'édition parue à Bruxelles en 1669 chez François Coppens. Tirage à part, bibliophilie. Très bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
