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3744783510.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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1857028414UK: W. Kent and Co 1857. 1st Edition . Decorative Cloth. Good . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Charles Bennett. 1st Edition 1857. Designed and Drawn on the Wood by Charles H. Bennett Engraved by Swain. Wonderful illustrations. Bennett a noted artist and contributor to Punch was also a founding member of the Savage Club. Joseph Swain was an English wood-engraver. He is best known from his engravings in Punch magazine of cartoons by Sir John Tenniel. Bound in he original cloth. Book is good and quite bright. Marking to cloth. Edges rubbed in places. Contents quite good. Pages lightly foxed and rear pages with stating to edges. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18408 <br/> <br/> W. Kent and Co hardcover
1975198510Boston: Gambit 1975. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Lightly sunned spine. Gambit hardcover
1886031054UK: Warne 1886. New Edition . Cloth. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. New Edition 1886. Illustrated with eighty original illustrations Bound in the original decorative publishers cloth. Book is very good and bright. Light edge rubbing. Contents quite good. Small name to endpaper. Pages quite foxed. More images can be taken upon request. Ref16727 <br/> <br/> Warne hardcover
1854028734USA: Milner and Company 1854. New Edition . Cloth. Good. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. New Edition 1854. Illustrated with over 100 engravings. Engraved fold out frontis. Bound in the original cloth. Book is good with marked used cloth boards. Edges rubbed Hinges lightly repaired in places. Contents average. Pages age toned and marked in places. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18408 <br/> <br/> Milner and Company hardcover
1793H-123<p>FIRST Stockdale edition first issue with the long "s" throughout; 2 volumes large 8vo 270 x 165mm. VERY SCARCE Large Paper Copy. 2 Engraved title-pages and 110 plates All 112 plates are in fabulous unmarked condition; there is no foxing and the volumes are internally clean. Some leaves are slightly browned. Leather boards are slightly worn and previous owner's bookplates are present. Both volumes are bound in early perhaps original full leather bindings with faded gold lettering and decoration on the spines gold borders on the boards.<br />Page 198 of Vol I is misprinted as 891; the text is by Samuel Croxall. A very good collector's copy of the richly illustrated first edition of the famous Stockdale's Aesop.</p> Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly hardcover
1845018282UK: William Milner 1845. New Edition . Cloth. Very Good. 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall. New Edition 1845. Illustrated with over 100 engravings. Lovely little miniature book. Engraved fold out frontis. Bound in the original cloth. Book is very good and bright. Light edge rubbing. Contents quite good. Pages age toned and marked in places. New front endpaper. More images can be taken upon request. Ref14846 <br/> <br/> William Milner hardcover
1909001872<p>London: Hodder & Stoughton 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. Edward J. Detmold Edward Julius Detmold 1883-1957. Limited Edition of 750 copies signed and numbered by the artist This copy No.534. 4to unpaginated with limitation page half title title page and a further pp204 printed on one side only complete with the 25 beautiful tipped-in colour plates by Edward J. Detmold. Hardcover no dust jacket. Publishers red cloth binding with gilt tiles to spine and blind stamped borders titles and centerpiece to front board in good condition with shelf wear and rubbing to top & tail of spine edges of boards and tips with some marking and scratches to boards. Inside except for toning to end papers and the odd mark to edges of pages all pages and tipped-in plates in very good clean and bright condition. A very nice copy of this first edition illustrated by the prolific Victorian and early twentieth-century book illustrator Edward J. Detmold. <br /><br /></p> Hodder & Stoughton 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
201654215Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 2016. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. Detmold Edward. Large quarto 12" x 9-3/4". 208pp. Light tan leather elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt. A.e.g. Housed in publisher's matching cloth slipcase. Illustrated with all the original 25 stunning color illustrations that bring these timeless characters to life. This now out-of-print facsimile edition is limited to 800 copies. A fine as new copy still in publisher's shrinkwrap and the original shipping box. <br /> <br /> "The Fables of Aesop is perhaps Detmold's greatest masterpiece." Publisher. The Easton Press hardcover
1909240046New York: Hodder and Stoughton 1909. First American Trade Edition first printing. Publisher's full green cloth illustratively stamped in black and titled in gilt housed in publisher's illustrated box. Very fine in very good toned and edge worn publisher's illustrated box with some minor reinforcements partial original glassine jacket laid in. Illustrations and text remain bright and clean. With twenty-three full-color tipped-in illustrations by Edward J. Detmold. Color frontispiece mis-bound at p. 109. Quarto. xvi 152pp. 9.25" x 6.5" GOLDEN AGE AESOP<br /> <br /> One of the most famed Victorian illustrators of the animal kingdom pairs here with one of the great books of fables. Issued in the UK and US by Hodder & Stoughton in 1909 this sumptuous quarto brings the ancient moral tales of Aesop vividly to life through Detmold's twenty-three full-color plates. Bridging the gap between the Victorian and Edwardian eras Detmold became one of the most gifted animal illustrators of the early twentieth-century combining scientific observation with decorative elegance. Produced during the Golden Age of illustrated gift books this volume exemplifies the artistry and craftsmanship of the period and remains one of the most beautiful modern interpretations of these classic fables. <br /> <br /> A fine first American Trade Edition preserved in extremely scarce illustrated publisher's box. Hodder and Stoughton unknown
1857962P8London; New York: W. Kent & Co; Chatto and Windus; The Viking Press; Bracken Books 1857-1986. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed/Near Fine. 10.5" by 8.5"; 10" by 7.5"; 9.5" by 8"; 11" by 9"; . Charles H. Bennett; Swain; Randolph Caldecott. A curated set of five editions of Charles H. Bennett's illustrated Aesop's 'Fables' a curated set with colourful illustrations. Charles H. Bennett's illustrations for Aesop's 'Fables' first appeared in 1857 and as evidenced in this set was oft-reprinted over the following century. This is a unique and curated set containing five different editions of Bennett's 'Fables' from the first edition of 1857 to a 1986 reprint a curious reference set.In a custom cloth slipcase and a custom cloth chemise. Chemise and slipcase are both in a fine condition.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 adventures of many different creatures.This set contains:'The Fables of Aesop and Others Translated Into Human Nature' the first Bennet edition hand-coloured issue published by W. Kent & Co in London in 1857. Illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece a hand-coloured title page and twenty-two hand-coloured plates. Collated complete.'The Fables of Aesop and Others Translated Into Human Nature' the first Bennet edition plain issue published by W. Kent & Co in London in 1857. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece a monochrome title page and twenty-two monochrome plates. Collated complete.'The Fables of Aesop and Others Translated Into Human Nature' published by Chatto and Windus in London in 1875. Illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece a hand-coloured title page and twenty-two hand-coloured plates. Collated complete.'Bennett's Fables From Aesop and Others' published by the Viking Press in New York in 1978 in the original unclipped dust wrapper. With a foreword by Gerald Gottlieb. Illustrated with a colour vignette title and twenty-three colour plates. Collated complete.'The Fables of Aesop and Others Translated Into Human Nature' published by Bracken Books in London in 1986 in the original unclipped dust wrapper. With additional fables designed and drawn by Randolph Caldecott. Illustrated with a colour vignette title twenty-two colour plates and monochrome illustrations. Collated complete.Bennett was a pioneering Victorian illustrator known for his techniques in comic illustration. 1857 hand-coloured issue is rebound in a quarter morocco binding with paper to the boards part of the original boards restored 1857 plain issue is in a rebacked quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards and renewed endpapers 1875 edition is in the original publisher's cloth smartly rebacked the 1978 and 1986 editions are both in the original publisher's cloth bindings in the original unclipped dust wrappers together in a custom cloth slipcase and custom cloth chemise. Externally the 1857 and 1875 editions are generally smart the 1978 and 1986 editions are very smart. Light bumping to the extremities of the 1857 and 1875 editions. Light rubbing and marks to the boards of the 1857 hand-coloured issue. Handling marks and discolouration to the boards of the 1857 plain issue heavier to the rear board. A few light marks and a little light rubbing to the 1875 edition hinges have been reinforced. Dust wrapper for the 1978 edition is a little sunned to the spine with a few light handling marks and a price sticker to the front fly leaf. Dust wrapper to the 1986 edition is smart with a price sticker to the front fly leaf. Internally firmly bound. 1857 and 1875 editions are generally bright with scattered spots whereas the 1978 and 1986 editions are bright and clean. Repair to the contents leaf and pages 1 5 and 21 of the 1857 hand-coloured issue. Chemise and slipcase are both in a fine condition. Very Good Indeed W. Kent & Co; Chatto and Windus; The Viking Press; Bracken Books hardcover
1931001609<p>Newtown: The Gregynog Press 1931. 8 146pp 2. Publishers sheep title blocked in black to spine. Spine rubbed affecting a couple of the letters to title minor rubbing to extremities with small scuff to lower top corner. Edges of endpapers browned small stain to title just beneath illustrators name a couple of small and very minor marks to margins generally quite bright and clean. Number one hundred and seventy-two of two hundred and twenty-five copies bound thus by the Gregynog Press bindery another twenty-five copies were specially bound with their name to foot of lower endpaper. Actually published in April 1932 in Bembo type on Barcham Green hand-made paper with thirty-seven wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker and wood engraved initials by William MacCance. For the illustrator see Selborne 'British Wood-Engraved Book Illustration 1904-1940' pages 382-392. Franklin page 282; Harrop 20 noting that "never can living creatures have been more successfully portrayed in so static a medium" Harrop page 96. First Thus. Hardback. Good. Illus. by Parker Agnes Miller. Folio. Private Press.</p> The Gregynog Press hardcover
1998600010London: Folio Society 1998. Hardcover. Fine condition in a fine slipcase. Decorative Cloth. 152 pp. with 23 color plates plus text illustrations. In handsome slipcase. <br/><br/> Folio Society hardcover
1894962F19London: Macmillan & Co 1894 . First edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 11.5" by 8.5". Richard Heighway. The very scarce large paper limited edition of Joseph Jacob's reworking on Aesop's fables illustrated throughout by Richard Heighway. A very scarce large paper first edition limited to one-hundred unnumbered copies.Illustrated throughout by Richard Heighway with a frontispiece and with vignette illustrations to majority of leaves.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. In this volume these tales are retold by noted folklorist Joseph Jacobs who also traces their fascinating history. With the armorial bookplate of A S Marsden-Smedley to the front pastedown. Housed in a cloth clamshell case.The leaves of this volume have been washed.A very scarce late nineteenth century limited edition. In the publisher"s original cloth binding. Light fading to back strip otherwise externally excellent. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. The leaves of this volume have been washed. Pages exceptionally bright and generally clean with only the odd spot. Majority of leaves unopened to head. Housed in a cloth clamshell case. Near Fine Macmillan & Co hardcover
