Fables Of Aesop

ILLUSTRATED WITH 66 POCHOIR WOODCUTS The Fables of Aesop. Printed from the Veronese Edition of MCCCCLXXIX in Latin Verses and Italian Version by Accio Zucco, with the Woodcuts Newly Engraved and Coloured After a Copy in The British Museum. (With) The First Three Books of Caxton's Aesop containing the Fables Illustrated in the Verona Aesopus of MCCCCLXXIX. Epilogue by Giovanni Mardersteig. Illustrated… Read more about this item

Deluxe illustrated edition. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1931. Hardcover. Blue, cream and gilt boards, b/w line illus by Bennett. Top Edge Gilt, bound-in ribbon marker, untrimmed leading edge, 222p, index. bx141

New York: Gramercy, 1994. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket Aesop is said to have been a Phrygian slave who lived around 570 B.C. Some of his tales are believed to have been turned into verse by Socrates during his imprisonment and, later, in the second century A.D. by the Greek poet Babrius. In this form the… Read more about this item

Norwalk Connecticut:: Easton Press. New. 2002. Leather. Color Plates ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 2002 Easton Press. Essentially new, still sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. Bound in full leather with decorative borders and panels in gilt and color to cover and spine. All edges gilt; silk moire endleaves, hubbed spines and silk bookmarks sewn … Read more about this item

London: David Nutt, 1899. Wraps. Orig. illustrated tan wrappers. Very good. 2 Vols. (xx) 283, (v) 322 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Limited edition one of 550. Index and Glossary. Decorated initial letters and some wood-cut illustrations. Printed on acidy paper, slightly toned with wide text margins, contents very clean, uncut edges.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       .

London: 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… Read more about this item

London: The Folio Society, 2002. 152pp. Green slip-case and tan binding. Cloth illustrated in red design. Gilt titles to the spine and black to the front board. Colour illustrations and b/w drawings throughout. As new. No fading, inscriptions marks or wear.. fifth Printing. hard back. Fine/Slipcase. Illus. by Edward J Detmold.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 13" by 11". Edward J. Detmold. An exceptional limited edition collection of Aesop's fables, illustrated in colour and signed by Detmold. Number 69 of 750 numbered copies, signed by the artist, Edward J. Detmold.Illustrated with twenty-five tipped in colour plates by Edward Julius Detmold, a prolific… Read more about this item

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. 1st edition.. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Detmold, Edward J.. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Large format. Brown cloth with gilt titles and illustration to front. Pictorial endpapers. 23 beautiful tipped-in colour plates with tissue-guards. Assumed 1st edition. Spotting/browning to spine; some chipping to cloth at top and tail; a little… Read more about this item

Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel, 1926. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Celia M. Fiennes. Translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange. Wood engraved illustrations by Celia M. Fiennes. 94 pages. Tall 8vo, linen-backed brown boards, uncut edges. Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. Limited Edition - number 267 of 325 copies. A fine copy, lacking the dust wrapper.<br/><br/> One… Read more about this item

London : Hodder & Stoughton., 1909 . Cloth. Good Only. 12.5" by 10". Edward Julius Detmold. A beautifully presented and illustrated limited edition of Aesop's fables signed by the illustrator. A very sought after work. Here the casing is a very worn but good and bright internally so an excellent candidate for a rebind. Can… Read more about this item

Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company. 1925. Vintage Copy. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. 3 inch open tear at front spine edge. Light staining on rear panel. Light bumping at corners of front/rear panels. Illustrations by Joseph Eugene Dash. .

London: John Stockdale, 1793. First Edition. Fine. 2 vol., Large 8vo, 11 x 7 in. (278 x 178 mm); pp. lxv, 189 (misnumbered 891); advertisement, xi, 248; engraved vignettes on title page of each vol. and 110 other plates, one for each fable, by various engravers including Skelton and Barrett, J Chapman, Clarke, J. Smith, some unsigned. Vol.… Read more about this item

London: Warne And Co, Nd. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth spine and illustrated boards lettered in red and black. Very good. 152 pages. 15.5 x 11.5 cm. With 80 original illustrations, and colored engraved frontispiece and vignette. Rubbing to extremities. National Nursery Library.

London: Hodder & Stoughton [1909]. 4to.Illustrated. First Trade Edition. xvi, 152 pp. Half dark turquoise morocco over blue boards with raised bands, gilt-stamped devices and lettering to spine; marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Spine discoloured to dark green (still pleasing); marks to boards, slight wear to spine ends, joints and corners. Light yellowing to page edges, but otherwise internally clean.… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1956 12mo pp228+publisher adverts bw drawings VG+ A new translation by S.A. Handford. Brown-white Penguin Classic. Minor marking and wear, spine uncreased, Fine text.

Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1973. 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. Epilogue [in English] by Giovanni Mardersteig]. Volume I: Pp. 278+[2](blank, colophon), 68 pochoir woodcuts attributed to Liberale da Verona, recut by Anna Bramanti; Volume… Read more about this item

Harvard Common Press. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Penguin Books, 1973. Mass Market Paperback. VERY GOOD. 18 cm.. Pages lightly tanned. 228 pages. -- Please feel free to ask for additional information, or detailed photos. US orders ship USPS from Niagara Falls, NY. Canadian orders ship from Ontario.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1981. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. The boards are shelf rubbed.tanning.no inscriptions.well bound.good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.