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1570rif. ABC_45182Leipzig 1570. 8vo. colophon: Ernest Vögelin Blind-tooled red vellum sewn on 3 supports with a hollow back each board with a double frame of double fillets the inner and outer connected with diagonal double fillets the front board with the owners initials and the date in the central field: M E B S 1598. With Vögelins woodcut device on title page scrollwork cartouche with a crucifixion - with a bird representing the Holy Spirit - on the arc of the covenant and symbols of the 4 Evangelists in the corners and 4 woodcut initials 2 series with pictorial decoration. 25 1 blank 342 349-513 32 1 blank pp. Vögelins 1570 Aesop edition a nearly page for page often line for line reprint of his own important 1564 edition including one of the most extensive collections of Aesop fables to that date following but augmenting Camerariuss 1544 Leipzig edition. It contains more than 500 fables collected by the humanist classical scholar Joachim Camerarius Bamberg 1500-Leipzig 1574 who played a decisive role in the German Reformation helped Philip Melanchthon with the composition of the famous Augsburg Confession and published editions of many classical authors. The preface and printers note originally copied the 1564 date from the 1564 edition but in the latter a correction slip changed the date to 1570. One can see in the present copy that the slip was present but it has fallen off. Many copies lack the last printed leaf present here containing only the colophon.Lacking the final blank leaf. Somewhat browned the title page thumbed and the corners of the last few leaves gone not approaching the text but generally in good condition.l USTC 657123; VD16 A516; cf. Bodemann 34.1-2 1565 Plantin Antwerp ed. & 1571 Jean de Tournes Lyon ed. LITERATURE & LINGUISTICS Fable Books hardcover
1941rif. 51581Paris A l'Emblme du Secr 1941 In-4, en feuilles, couverture imprime. Chemise, tui.Cette nouvelle traduction augmente la fin de chaque fable de quatrains, est illustre par Andr Collot de 42 compositions dont 20 hors-texte en taille-douce et 22 vignettes in texte graves sur bois en deux teintes. Tirage limit 242 exemplaires numrots. Un des 12 exemplaires sur japon nacr rservs l'artiste (plus petit tirage avec 5 exemplaires sur madagascar), sign par Andr Collot. Exemplaire enrichi d'une suite en noir des hors-texte avec remarques, d'une dcomposition des 2 teintes des 22 bois, de 3 dessins originaux en couleurs signs par l'artiste (reprsentant un chameau, un renard et une chvre) et du cuivre grav ayant servi l'impression de l'illustration pour La Fable d'un lion et d'une chvre.
1912rif. 17231London: William Heinemann 1912. Limited Edition; First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good bound in full white buckram with gilt titles and decorations. Minor wear toning weak smudges and a weak/faint stain to crown of front panel does not affect interior. Interior clean and unmarked binding strong. 4to 11 3/4"h x 9 1/4"w. Beautiful edition with twelve full-page color illustrations in-laid on brown paper 53 black & white in-text illustrations. Limited to 1400 copies signed by Rackham. William Heinemann hardcover
1800rif. 34148Parmae: ex Regio Typographeo 1800. In-folio cm. 46 pp. 8 176 4. Legatura in cart. rigido arancione con titoli su etichetta al dorso. Legatura novecentesca ad imitazione felice dell'originale. Esemplare genuino e molto marginoso in barbe. Cfr. Brooks 796: "Stampate a 2 colonne il testo greco e la versione latina accanto"; Geering: "D'une simple beauté incomparable"; Brunet: "Edition de luxe". ex Regio Typographeo unknown
1690rif. 034148Amsterdam: Antoins Michils 1690. Book. Very Good. Full Leather. First Edition. 12mo. The very rare first edition; pp. 3-14 15-360 9. Title page printed in red and black preface Esope in Belle Humeur printed in red and black La Vie D'Esope The life of Aesop; Censure de L'Ordinaire. Numerous woodcut vignette illustrations in the text plus head and tail pieces the first vignette to the La Vie D'Esope page shows Aesop dancing between apes playing stringed instruments and in the background his murder is depicted. There is no frontispiece plate in this copy but otherwise complete. Later Victorian full mottled sheep binding with burgundy title label to the spine; binding very good with a little gentle wear and rubbing. Contents clean and tight; a little edge-wear to the title page which has a small old paper repair to the base a few pages with short edge-tears. A very good copy of the scarce first edition. Antoins Michils Hardcover
1775rif. 962P1London: J. F. and C. Rivington; et al 1775. Leather. Very Good. 7" by 4"; 8" by 5". Not Stated. Aesop's enduring fables an illustrated edition with ten scenes to each plate including a life of Aesop. In a custom cloth clamshell bound by Eric Sweet in 1998 clamshell is in a near fine condition.The important fables of Aesop.Illustrated with an engraved title and twenty-five plates each of which portrays ten scenes. Collated complete.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.Including a life of Aesop by Mr. Richardson.Undated dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library.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. In a full calf binding rebacked in a custom cloth clamshell. Externally smart. Light discolouration and marks to the boards. Minor bumping to the extremities. Internally firmly bound. Pages are age-toned and generally clean. Small chip to the margin of the plate facing page 142 no loss to image. Publisher's label over the imprint to the title page. Ink to the title page. Clamshell is in a near fine condition with only a few light marks. Very Good J. F. and C. Rivington; et al hardcover
rif. 8748Copy number 50 of 750 copies of the limited edition signed by the illustrator. Edward Detmold was the longest surviving of the two tragic Detmold twins who had attracted the attention of artists such as Edward Burne-Jones as children and young artists. Edward's brother Maurice had committed suicide in 1908 after producing numerous highly regarded prints at the turn of the century. Edward himself continued to make prints and publish illustrated books until his own suicide in 1957. Animals and birds were their primary subjects and to varying degrees their prints exhibit the clear influence of the Japanese master printmakers. Large 4to 305 × 250 mm pp. 154 plus 35 mounted coloured plates. Original white buckram gilt top edge gilt others uncut. Very lightly soiled slight separation between a couple of gatherings of the texblock but tight and secure endpapers slightly toned. An excellent copy. [Henry Stone for] Hodder & Stoughton.
1619rif. ABC_45381Genève or Lyon 1619. Ad 1: 16mo and ad 2: 12mo. Jean de Tournes Contemporary overlapping vellum. Ad 1 with the woodcut portrait of Aesop in a roundel on the title page and 61 woodcuts ca. 3.5 x 4.5 cm in the text illustrating the fables of Aesop most after Bernard Salomon but 22 from another series. Woodcut initials and ornaments. Text in two columns: Greek left and Latin right. Ad 2 with printers device on title page and some woodcut initials. 2 volumes bound as 1. 410 6; 8 168 pp. Ad 1: One of the many Aesop editions based on the famous first illustrated edition by Jean de Tournes Lyon 1571 which was a landmark in humanistic scholarship and printing with woodcuts by Bernard Salomon Bodemann 29.1. The De Tournes family moved to Geneva in 1585 to escape religious persecution as Hugenots. In 1619 Jean de Tournes III sold his house in Lyon to the printer Guichard Juliéron who probably issued the present edition in Lyon under the name of Jean de Tournes.Ad 2: A rare collection of Greek poetry and other works by Theognis and Phocylides ideas and thoughts of Pythagoras and the mottos of Solon. The editor and translator Fredericus Sylberg 1536-1596 was a classical philologist working as a corrector and editor for the publisher Henr. Commelin at Heidelberg. Ad 1: with owners entry on the front pastedown: "Sum ex libris Hugonis Suchier Ritelii = Rinteln 1881". There are more than a dozen errors in the pagination but both books are nevertheless complete. Some woodcuts slightly worn boards slightly damaged. Ad 2: minor water stains pp. 115-158.l Ad 1: cf. Bodeman 29.2. Ad 2: STCN 2 copies. LITERATURE & LINGUISTICS Fable Books hardcover
1699rif. ABC_45393Utrecht: widow of Jurriaen Poolsom 1699. Marbled wrappers. Small 8vo. With woodcut of a wolf sitting next to a tree 3.5 x 6 cm on the title page and 47 woodcuts in the text ca. 5 x 6 cm. Rare Greek and Latin school edition of Aesop with the same contents and 47 woodcuts as the 1685 edition published by Jurriaen Poolsum in Utrecht Bodemann 65.4 one of the many editions based on the original Heinsius school edition of 1626 published by Johannes Maire in Leiden with a woodcut series by Christoffel van Sichem II ca. 1577-1658. Landwehr counts 15 editions between 1626 and 1727. The unsigned woodcuts in the present edition closely follow the Van Sichem series.The Aesop fables are printed in two columns with the Greek left and Latin right prose texts; Avianuss Latin verse rendition of the fables follows in one column. The added Brachomyomachia or Ranarum & murium pugna a spoof of Homer here attributed to him as in many early editions gives the Greek verse text left and Latin verse translation right on facing pages illustrated with 6 woodcuts.First quire loose part of the last leaf torn out.l Fabula docet 16 p. 99; Landwehr Emblem & fable books F025 cf. p. 312; STCN 2 copies; cf. Bodemann 65.1-5 related eds. widow of Jurriaen Poolsom, unknown
1997rif. 85803University of Washington Press. New. Hardcover. 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--; "Aesop's Fables" combines 23 timeless morality tales with striking black ink drawings by the revered artist Jacob Lawrence. This new edition completely redesigned and typeset adds five illustrations Lawrence prepared for the original edition but which were not included in it. Aesop's fables are often ungentle tales with profound and instructive morals. Lawrence's bold and expressive pen-and-ink illustrations reflect both the charm and the severity of the fables themselves. The wisdom and depth of this collection will reach all who read it from child to adult. . 1997. 0295976411 . University of Washington Press hardcover
1553rif. 104563Near 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
1930rif. 40828San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1930. Pullman Jana. Aesop. The subtyl historyes and fables of Esope. Translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe by William Caxton . . . No. 145 of 200 copies. 8 167pp. Woodcut initials and illustrations by Valenti Angelo 1897-1982 hand-illuminated by the artist. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1930. 230 x 160 mm. Custom binding by Jana Pullman of the Western Slope Bindery consisting of tan crushed morocco decorated with paint and colored onlays reproducing two of the book's illustrations; boxed. Very fine. An attractive example of Ms. Pullman's work. . Grabhorn Press unknown
1930rif. 40828San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1930. Pullman Jana. Aesop. The subtyl historyes and fables of Esope. Translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe by William Caxton . . . No. 145 of 200 copies. 8 167pp. Woodcut initials and illustrations by Valenti Angelo 1897-1982 hand-illuminated by the artist. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1930. 230 x 160 mm. Custom binding by Jana Pullman of the Western Slope Bindery consisting of tan crushed morocco decorated with paint and colored onlays reproducing two of the book's illustrations; boxed. Very fine. An attractive example of Ms. Pullman's work. . Grabhorn Press unknown books
rif. 63949London: Printed for John Stockdale 4th June 1793. FIRS EDITION WITH ISSUE WITH THE LONG 'S'. 2 vols. Large 8vo. 26.5 x 16 cm. pp.lxv189; xi248. Contemporary polished tan calf by Morrell sides ruled with two gilt fillets intersecting roundels at corners spines with raised bands and richly gilt-decorated compartments complementary red and tan morocco labels marbled endpapers and edges. 112 copper engravings comprising 2 engraved titles each with vignette illustration and 110 engraved plates by various engravers including Skelton and Barrett J Chapman Clarke J. Smith and according to Bentley William Blake albeit unsigned. Some light shelfwear to exterior contents with some occasional toning and light marginal foxing generally a very good set in handsome leather bindings. In his comprehensive study Blake Books G. E. Bentley mentions that this edition was advertised at the end of the 1793 Stockdale edition of John Gay's Fables as containing Blake engravings although Blake did not sign any of the plates. Brunet I 103; Bentley Blake Books 460 London: Printed for John Stockdale, 4th June, 1793. hardcover
1912rif. 73696xxix 1 1-224 pages colour illustrated tipped-in frontispiece illustrated title illustrations throughout 13 colour plates and 53 line illustrations signed by Arthur Rackham forwarded by G. K. Chesterton limited to 1450 copies this no. 534 Published by William Heinemann hardcover
2 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, LARGE PAPER, with engraved title-vignettes and 110 fine full-page engraved plates; handsomely bound in contemporary full brown diced calf, boards with triple frame border enclosing decorative frame all in gilt, backs with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered and numbered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt with a geometrical floral flourish, marbled edges, gilt doublures, marbled endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrips laid down, a splendid, crisp and remarkably clean copy in sympathetically restored period binding. WITH THE FINE ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF RAWSON BODDAM CROZIER [1775-1849] ON FRONT PASTE-DOWNS. FIRST EDITION OF THIS SELECTION. Large Paper copies are invariably [as here] the first issue with uncorrected page numeral [891] on p.198, and issued without Stockdale's later advertisement leaf for his edition of Gay's Fables. This selection comprises 110 fables, each illustrated with a superb full-page engraving by Blake, Clarke, Eastgate, Grainger, Landseer, Stothard and several other artists. Croxall compiled his translation (first published in 1722) to rival the well-known version of Roger L'Estrange (first published 1692, many times reprinted and prior to Croxall the well-nigh 'standard' text). Croxall accuses his predecessor of Jacobite tendencies, but has himself not resisted the temptation to incorporate political overtones into what is primarily a children's book. A SPLENDID COPY OF THE FIRST STOCKDALE EDITION AND SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
1728rif. 16041Amsterdam, Zacharias Chatelain, 1728. 2 Frontispices (Porträt des Autors von B. Picart und allegorische Musendarstellung mit dem Autor inmitten, von Romeyn de Hooghe), eine Titel-, zwei Kopfvignetten, Titel in rot/schwarz, 19 Bll., 123 SS., 2 Bll., SS. 141 - 268. 1 Bl., 117 (1) SS., 2 Bll., SS. 119 - 233, 2 Bll., 123 (1) SS., 1 Bl. Kl.-8°, etw. späteres Pergament, Vorsätze erneuert.
rif. 41457Printed for John Stockdale Piccadilly. 2 vols. roy. 8vo. First Edition thus LARGE PAPER with engraved title-vignettes and 110 fine full-page engraved plates; handsomely bound in contemporary full brown diced calf boards with triple frame border enclosing decorative frame all in gilt backs with raised bands ruled in gilt second and fourth compartments lettered and numbered in gilt all other compartments elaborately tooled in gilt with a geometrical floral flourish marbled edges gilt doublures marbled endpapers expertly rebacked with old backstrips laid down a splendid crisp and remarkably clean copy in sympathetically restored period binding. WITH THE FINE ENGRAVED ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF RAWSON BODDAM CROZIER 1775-1849 ON FRONT PASTE-DOWNS. FIRST EDITION OF THIS SELECTION. Large Paper copies are invariably as here the first issue with uncorrected page numeral 891 on p.198 and issued without Stockdale's later advertisement leaf for his edition of Gay's Fables. This selection comprises 110 fables each illustrated with a superb full-page engraving by Blake Clarke Eastgate Grainger Landseer Stothard and several other artists. Croxall compiled his translation first published in 1722 to rival the well-known version of Roger L'Estrange first published 1692 many times reprinted and prior to Croxall the well-nigh 'standard' text. Croxall accuses his predecessor of Jacobite tendencies but has himself not resisted the temptation to incorporate political overtones into what is primarily a children's book. A SPLENDID COPY OF THE FIRST STOCKDALE EDITION AND SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, hardcover
1643rif. 5227Trevigi: Girolamo Righettini 1643. Contemporary sheepskin parchment. 12mo. With 137 small woodcuts in text illustrating the fables including some repeats. 2 parts in 1 volume. Rare edition of the Italian translation by the philosopher Giulio Landi 1498-1579 of Aesop's fables and the Life of Aesop including no less than 400 animal fables some collected from other sources. The fables are illustrated with numerous small anonymous woodcuts that appeared for the first time in 1569 in the fables collected by Cesare Pavesi and became very popular through Landis translations of Aesop beginning in 1580. They have been attributed to Johann Krieger a German working in Italy where he was known as Giovanni Chrieger. Several woodcuts are repeated especially at the end for the fables taken from other sources. All fables close with a moral here called "Sentenza" intended for the instruction and amusement of the youth.With 2 holes in the last few pages some water stains throughout and some restorations with now discoloured tape. With the binding slightly stained partly detached from the bookblock and with 2 holes in the back board.l WorldCat 2 copies; cf. Fabula docet 14. Girolamo Righettini, unknown
1546rif. 23050Tubingen & Cologne: Ulrichus Morhandum & Martinus Gymnicus 1546. Hardcover. Later half calf rebacked and marbled boards. All edges red. Near fine. 451 Index & Errata on four unnumbered pages. 15.1 x 9.5 cm. 16th century edition printed in Greek and Latin. Included are Homer Ranarum & Murium Pugna 24 pages printed in Greek and Latin; Musaeus Deero et Leandro 26 pages printed in Greek and Latin; Agapeto Eposito Capitum Damononitiorum 44 pages printed in Greek and Latin; Hipp Ivsivrandum 4 pages and 17 pages in Greek. BRUNET II 99. Bound With Clenardus Nicolaus -- Text in Greek and Latin. 380 pages. OCLC 265496015. Both titles printed 1546. From the collection of Broadway producer Crosby Gaige. First title printed within woodcut border with hand coloring plus 17 woodcut decorative initials with some staining. Unidentified inscription on title page F.J. Pith and early signature annotations unidentified stamp Crosby Gaige bookplate. Save for the title and one following leaf the interior contents are pristine. Ulrichus Morhandum & Martinus Gymnicus hardcover
1546rif. 23050Tubingen & Cologne: Ulrichus Morhandum & Martinus Gymnicus 1546. Hardcover. Later half calf rebacked and marbled boards. All edges red. Near fine. 451 Index & Errata on four unnumbered pages. 15.1 x 9.5 cm. 16th century edition printed in Greek and Latin. Included are Homer Ranarum & Murium Pugna 24 pages printed in Greek and Latin; Musaeus Deero et Leandro 26 pages printed in Greek and Latin; Agapeto Eposito Capitum Damononitiorum 44 pages printed in Greek and Latin; Hipp Ivsivrandum 4 pages and 17 pages in Greek. BRUNET II 99. Bound With Clenardus Nicolaus -- Text in Greek and Latin. 380 pages. OCLC 265496015. Both titles printed 1546. From the collection of Broadway producer Crosby Gaige. First title printed within woodcut border with hand coloring plus 17 woodcut decorative initials with some staining. Unidentified inscription on title page F.J. Pith and early signature annotations unidentified stamp Crosby Gaige bookplate. Save for the title and one following leaf the interior contents are pristine. Ulrichus Morhandum & Martinus Gymnicus hardcover books
rif. s00040614Norwalk CT: Easton Press. Hardcover. Near Fine. Eighty volumes of the Easton Press 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series 78 from the original 100 2 Shakespeare volumes from the additional 25. Octavos with a few quartos full leather boards with gilt designs and titles all edges gilded moire end papers. All volumes are near fine due to faint tobacco odor but in otherwise perfect condition handsome leather flawless gilt no discernible wear at all with the following volumes having very minor imperfections to the gilt on text block edges: Autobiography of Ben Franklin the Brothers Karamazov A Farewell to Arms the Jungle Book The Last of the Mohicans with small rub to first band on spine On the Origin of Species Paradise Lost the Collected Poems of Robert Browning The Red and the Black The Red Badge of Courage The Rights of Man the Comedies of Shakespeare The Talisman Vanity Fair. See below for list of the 80 volumes included. This heavy multi-volume set will require additional shipping fees calculated by destination! The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle The Aeneid by Virgil Aesop's Fables by Aesop Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll The Analects of Confucius by Confucius Animal Farm by George Orwell Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin Beowulf by Anonymous Billy Budd by Herman Melville Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Candide by Voltaire The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Cherry Orchard/Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov Collected Poems by Robert Browning Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson Collected Poems by John Keats Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats The Comedies by William Shakespeare The Confessions of St. Augustine by Saint Augustine of Hippo Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand David Copperfield by Charles Dickens The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton James Madison John Jay Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift The Histories by William Shakespeare The History of Early Rome by Livy The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo The Iliad by Homer Ivanhoe by Walter Scott The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert The Necklace and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant The Odyssey by Homer Oedipus the King by Sophocles Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Paradise Lost by John Milton The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Politics by Aristotle A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli Pygmalion/Candida by George Bernard Shaw The Red and the Black by Stendhal The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane The Republic by Plato The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam The Sea Wolf by Jack London She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith Silas Marner by George Eliot The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Tales from the Arabian Nights by Richard Burton The Talisman by Walter Scott Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas The Time Machine by H. G. Wells Tom Jones by Henry Fielding Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Walden by Henry David Thoreau War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler. Easton Press hardcover
1912rif. 187472London: 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
1800rif. 2962Parma: Giambattista Bodoni 1800. Very good . Folio 17 1/4 x 19 1/2 inches 440 x 293 mm; 8 176 4 pp. 19th Century quarter-binding in tan calf boards covered in marbled paper gilt title and decorations on spine; edges rubbed and corners bumped; front hinge partially split but binding is square and solid; generous margins with some marginal restoration from leaf 19/4 to end else internally clean and bright. Provenance: dedication inked by Ludovico Florio March 1862 on verso of second leaf; Barone Zappalà Asmundo paper label on spine; Carlo Antinori bookplate pasted inside front board. Brooks 796. A superb Bodoni classical imprint this handsome folio edition of Aesop's Fabulae is among the finest productions of the Parma Royal Press. The Greek text is printed with a parallel Latin translation in Bodoni's magnificent type demonstrating the harmony precision and elegance for which his editions are celebrated. Produced at the height of Bodoni's career it is an enduring masterpiece of neoclassical printing and an essential work for collectors of fine typography and Bodoni imprints. H. C. BROOKS in his Compendiosa bibliografia di edizioni bodoniane Florence 1927 says it is "of a simple yet incomparable beauty. Giambattista Bodoni unknown
1761rif. 962Z9Birmingham: John Baskerville 1761. First edition. Leather. Near Fine. 7" by 4.5". None stated. The renowned first Robert Dodsley edition of Aesop's fables published by Baskerville adorned with wood engravings and beautifully bound in vellum and crushed morocco with a uniform cloth slipcase and chemise. The first Dodsley edition published by Baskerville. Illustrated with a monochrome wood engraved frontispiece monochrome wood engraved vignettes and sixteen wood engraved plates. Collated complete.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.A charming collection of fables credited to Aesop a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. This collection is separated into three 'books' and edited with an account of the life of Aesop by Robert Dodsley. Dodley's edition was notable as the animals spoke in character such as the lion speaking in a royal manner adding personality to the creatures. His addition also included fables from ancient sources and new stories written by himself and other notable writers. This edition is also notable for being printed by Baskerville a printer known for inventing wove paper and his renowned typeface. Bound in modern crushed quarter morocco with vellum to the boards with endpapers and blanks renewed and a cloth chemise and slipcase. Bound in modern crushed quarter morocco with vellum to the boards with endpapers and blanks renewed and a cloth chemise and slipcase. Externally lovely with only very slight marks to the vellum. Internally firmly bound with bright washed and generally clean pages with only the odd minor spot and owner's signature to the title page. Minor archival tape repairs to the rear few pages. The Slip and chemise are lovely. Near Fine John Baskerville hardcover
