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1930réf. 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
1988réf. 26070202Santa Cruz: Good Book Press 1988. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of four copies miniature 9 pp. This lovely miniature book was issued in an edition of only four copies with the calligraphy done by ahd by Donna and with three watercolour illustrations. It is a version of Aesop's fable "The Hen and the Cat" with the moral being to be wise and shun the quack. Peter and Donna Thomas started their press in 1976; in 1988 three years after this book was published they changed the name of their press from the "Good Book Press" to their names. They are "one of very few presses where the proprietors write the text create the art for the illustrations make the paper handset the type print on a letterpress and bind the book" n.b. Bradbury p. 302. Scarce hardly suprising in an edition of four copies; none online as of this writing our search of OLCL located no copies with institutions. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in quarter leather over marbled paper boards with gilt lettering on the spine title page in red and brown with coral decorative lines initial word of text in red with three watercolour illustrations the colophon also opens in red this no. 2 of four copies; miniature size 2 1/8" by 1 5/8" 6 pp. the final page the full-page watercolour 1 blank 1 colophon. ___CONDITION: Fine overall the boards clean straight corners with just a hint of rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; a pencilled notation on the front pastedown likely from a prior bookseller. ___CITATION: Peter and Donna Thomas Bibliography no. B13. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note the following: i additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs please inquire for details; and ii any taxes duty or tariffs charged by your country will of necessity be your responsibility. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. [Good Book Press] hardcover books
1687réf. 30747London: H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow 1687. Second Barlow Edition. Hardcover. Good . Folio 30.8 by 19.4 cm. 10 40 40 17 2-221 3: table pp; engraved title letterpress title engraved arms of the dedicatee William Cavendish Earl of Devonshire; engraved portrait of Aesop; 30 of 31 numbered full page copperplate engraved plates in the Life; 110 half page engraved plates accompany the fables. 18th-century paneled calf expertly rebacked retaining original backstrip borders and spine tooled in gilt. Light staining and scuffs to covers. Occasional light stains and smudges throughout mostly marginal; a few careful repairs at torn margins; professional repair at margin plate 2 just encroaching on printed surface; 3 cm perforation in plate Fable XII; moderate staining at plate Fable XLVIII; Text block good with otherwise clean plates complete but for the so-called 'indecent' or 'scandalous' plate 17 often defaced or lacking. A good or better copy handsomely bound. Second Barlow edition of these superbly illustrated Fables of Aesop first published in 1666. Each of the 110 fables include a half-page engraving text fable and moral in both French and Latin along with new captions in English by Aphra Behn. The English Life of Aesop is likely a reissue of the original sheets from the small-paper copies of the 1666 edition; the French Life is a new version. They are interspersed with thirty full-page plates mostly signed by Thomas Dudley the unsigned plates were engraved by Barlow. According to his contemporary the engraver and antiquary George Vertue Francis Barlow d. 1704 came from Lincolnshire and apprenticed in London to the portrait painter William Shepherd. Early and late in his career Barlow designed sets of natural history plates which were etched by Wenceslaus Hollar Richard Gaywood Jan Griffier and Francis Place. These prints proved to be an important source for artists and craftsmen of succeeding generations. Along with his engravings for Edward Benlowes's Theophilia 1652 the present suite of illustrations for Aesop's Fables are considered to be Barlow's finest. The preliminary drawings reside in the British Museum. While Barlow's house at "the Golden Eagle in New-Street near Shoo-lane" was burnt in the great fire the copper plates for the volume survived. ODNB. Provenance and annotations: "The Gift of Rich. Wesley Esq to his Son Garret Wesley Year of Christ 1741" entered in black ink at the front endleaf; Garret's entry appears beside the imprint at the title and his "cypher" substitution chart for Greek and English letters appears beneath the gift dediction. A later owner "E.R." has noted in pencil at the pastedown that this book belonged to R. and G. Wesley "ancestors of the Wellesley Family see the autographs for the letter afterwards to the Marquis Wellesley Revnd Dr Wellesley at whose sale I bought it." At the front pastedown is the bookplate of George Aiken Batchelder 1860-1936 who was Vice President E. H. Rollins & Sons Bonds San Francisco California. The bookplate partially obscures another note in pencil which appears to mention the absence of the 'indecent' plate. References: ESTC R22991; S. O'Connell "Barlow Francis" in: ODNB online; Press Reference Library Western Edition Notables of the West vol. I p. 163 International News Service 1913. Full title and imprint: AEsop's fables with his life: in English French and Latin. Newly translated. Illustrated with one hundred and twelve sculptures. To this edition are likewise added thirty one New figures representing his life. By Francis Barlow. London: Printed by H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow and are to be sold by Chr. Wilkinson at the Black-boy against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street Tho. Fox in Westminster-hall and Henry Faitborne at the Rose in St. Paul's Church-yard. M.DC.LXXXVII. 1687. H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow hardcover books
1718réf. FF2503Utrecht:: Apud Guilielmum vande Water 1718. 1718. Two parts in one volume. Octavo. 62 398; 258 70 pp. Elaborate engraved frontispiece woodcut title vignette head & tail pieces index. Title printed in red & black. Internally generally clean and tight with offsetting to title. Later full red straight grain morocco single-ruled in gilt with gilt-stamped and lettered spine with solid single gilt roll to edges foot of spine gilt-stamped: TRAJ: AD RHEN publisher: 1718 all edges gilt marbled endsheets; somewhat rubbed. Bookplates of Thomas M. Lowndes and Henry Drury. Very good. With a fore-edge painting depicting a scene of HAWICK ROXBURGHSHIRE SCOTLAND after an engraving by John Greig fl. 1800-1843 from an original study by Luke Clennell 1781-1840. The fore-edge painting is based on an engraving found in Sir Walter Scott's Border Antiquities of England and Scotland Longman & Co. 1814-1817. This well-painted scene is likely of 20th century vintage. / The Dutch scholar Peter Burman was professor of the art of rhetoric and the history of Utrecht and also of Greek philology. In 1715 he succeeded Perizonius receiving the chair of history and the Greek language and the art of rhetoric at the Lyon-Batava Academy. Later he was librarian and director of the Lyon-Batava Academy. This is his commentary on Phaedrus which was originally issued in 1698. PROVENANCE: Thomas M. Lowndes – Henry Drury both pre-fore-edge – Jack Bartfield Fine Books New York – Randall J. Moskovitz MD Memphis Tennessee. Apud Guilielmum vande Water, 1718. unknown books
1835réf. 59414Barcelona: Juan Francisco Piferrer 1835. hardcover. very good. Arregladas a la Ultima Ortografia de la Academia Mejoradas y Anadidas en esta Nueva Edicion. 108 text woodcuts by Jose Vilanova. 285pp. 6pp. index. Small 8vo contemporary vellum title inked by hand on front cover backstrip slightly chipped at tail; small water stain to corner of first 2 leaves. Barcelona: Juan Francisco Piferrer 1835. Rare charmingly illustrated Spanish edition of Aesop's fables. This edition not found in NUC or BMC. With the signature of the Massachusetts educator clergyman and bookseller Elias Nason 1811- 1887 and the bookplate of Nelson Osgood Rhoades 1869-1928 an American engineer and consultant to the Mexican government. Palau III 140. Juan Francisco Piferrer unknown books
1919réf. 6902Chicago: Rand McNally 1919. First edition. Good. 31 cm; 112 pages. Color illustrations by Milo Winter. In original cloth with title illustration mounted on upper board. Covers generally quite good with some fraying at spine ends and corners and a 15mm drop of pigment on the upper board obscuring a bit of the illustration. Background of mounted illustration faded to tan. Contents rather good for a children's book without marks or blemishes. The paper stock is slightly tanned darker toward the edges. One hundred twenty-six best-loved fables of Aesop. Rand McNally hardcover books
1815réf. 4763Madrid: Imprenta de Lopez y Hermano 1815. Hard cover. Good. Small octavo 16 cm; 24 352 pages. Woodcut vignette on title page and 62 woodcuts vignettes many of them captioned with proverbs or "dichos" illustrating the fables. Bound in rustic contemporary vellum over boards in Latin American style laced to text block with headband cores titled in ink on spine worn peeling at fore-edge of upper board; scorched on lower board. Old sewing on spine. Title page loose. Damp stain in lower margin of first 20 leaves affecting title page. Sewing is inexpert yet holding. Protected in clamshell case. Charming well-thumbed American copy of the popular compilation of fables. Imprenta de Lopez y Hermano hardcover books
1912réf. 180219011London: William Heinemann 1912. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. Deluxe limited edition; copy #540 of 1450 signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. Publisher's buckram cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good. Cloth lightly soiled darkened at spine lightly toned and with light staining to edge of rear cover. Dark stain to gutter at top margin of roughly the first third of pages stain to bottom for edge margin to last several leaves and endsheet. Thirteen full-color plates mounted on brown paper with captioned tissue guards all present. William Heinemann hardcover books
1554réf. 3630Nuremberg: Gedrückt zu Nürnberg durch Friderich Gutknecht 1554. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. The first work was first printed in 1535 as "Eyn new gedichte von den Schmeichlern" VD16 S 478. The third fable appeared as a broadside ca. 1540 Weller 82 not in VD16. I have been unable to trace an earlier ed. of the second fable. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern vellum over boards soiled slightly bowed. The text is in very good condition with a little light dust-soiling a few small spots on the final two leaves and soiling to the verso of the final leaf. With two woodcut illustrations and a fine woodcut ornament on the final leaf. No copies traced in North America. Hans Sachs' reworkings of three traditional fables two by Aesop "The shepherd flatters the wolf" and "The hares and the frogs" and one "the envious man and the miser" by the Latin fabulist Avianus. The first woodcut shows the devious wolf hiding in his cave. The second shows the miser and envious man having their eyes gouged out. The poet and playwright Hans Sachs a shoemaker and guild master by trade was an accomplished Meistersinger of the Nuremberg School Sachs is the title character of Wagner's "Meistersinger". Sachs' songs plays and dialogues address the social concerns of his day and the effects of the Reformation on the established social order. The Fables: 1. Ein yder sehe für sich und verberg sich hinder keinen Schmeichler. Ein jeder sehe für sich und verbarg sich hinter keinen Schmeichler. The shepherd tries to deceive the wolf: A wolf stalked by a hunter comes upon a shepherd and begs him to hide him from the hunter promising a rich reward. The shepherd agrees to help and the wolf hides in a cave. The hunter coming upon the spot but not seeing the wolf asks the shepherd if he has seen his quarry. The shepherd knowing that the wolf is watching them indicates with his hands that the wolf has gone off in a certain direction. Yet while he does so he tries by means of his eyes to let the hunter know that the wolf is in fact hiding in the cave. The hunter fails to see this and heads off. The shepherd then addresses the wolf telling him that he should be grateful that he has saved his life. The wolf thanks him but -being fully aware of the shepherd's deceit damns the shepherd's eyes. 2. Ein schöne Histori von dem Neidigen und dem Geitzigen Schöne Historie von dem Neidigen und dem Geizigen The Envious man and the Miser: "In this fable Jupiter sent Phoebus to earth where he stumbled upon an envious and a miserly person. He offered the miser a wish adding that whatever he wished for should be given double to his companion. The miser determined to wish for nothing knowing he would get only half what the other received and left it to his companion to make the wish. Thereupon the envious man took revenge by wishing that one of his own eyes be gouged out so that his companion would be made blind. Sachs concludes that envy makes envious persons suffer. They delight in the misery of others even if they are about to suffer the same fate themselves and their hearts are full of poison."Roper The Witch in the Western Imagination 3. "Ein yder trag sein joch dise Zeit" Ein jeder trage sein Joch diese Zeit und überwind sein Übel mit Geduld The hares and the frogs: Enduring and overcoming evil with patience: Once upon a time some hares driven desperate by the many enemies foxes wolves falcons hunters that threatened them from every direction came to the sad resolution that there was nothing left for them to do but kill themselves. They scurried to a nearby lake determined to drown themselves the most miserable of creatures. A group of frogs seated upon the bank frightened at the approach of the hares leaped in great alarm and confusion into the water. 'Nay then my friends' said the leader of the hares 'our case is not so desperate yet for here are other poor creatures more faint-hearted than ourselves.'. Gedrückt zu Nürnberg durch Friderich Gutknecht hardcover books
1793réf. 5806London: 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 books
1829réf. 2499London: J. M'Gowan and Son 1829. Two volumes in One 140x108mm half black cloth marbled sides worn to foot of spine vii-xxi 263pp and Vol. II iii-vii 311pp.Aquatint plates 100 unusually the plates are bound 51 49 at the end of each volume. Title pages to both volumes in facsimile. Volume I starts with Preface thus seems to lack the contents list. Volume II lacks only the title as contents pages are complete. Name stamp to margin of Preface edge browned and some fingering & soiling a few leaves with edge wear with 3 leaves with 3mm tears to blank margins only. A well loved and well used Aesop with charming AQUATINT PLATES. Very scarce with Oxford the only copy of this printing noted in British libraries - McGowan was printer as well as publisher and his Windmill Street address is given at the foot of the last page of each volume. J. M'Gowan and Son unknown books
1914réf. 010480London / Philadelphia: Raphael Tuck & Sons / David McKay 1914 140 pgs 4 pgs of ads. Blue cloth ruled & titled in gilt light wear and fraying to extremities spine darkened and stained binding shaken occasional finger soil previous owner's bookplate. An uncommon edition of Aesop's Fables illustrated with 12 color plates other artwork in line by Edwin Noble. . First American Edition. Cloth Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Edwin Noble. Large 8vo. Raphael Tuck & Sons / David McKay hardcover books
réf. 06684London: William Heineman 1912. Where Ancient Fable Meets Arthur Rackham's Enchanted Imagination The Signed Limited Edition of Aesop's Fables 1912 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. Limited to 1450 numbered copies signed by the artist this being copy no. 1103. 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. 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. 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. 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. Lattimore and Haskell pp. 38-9. Riall p. 111. London: William Heineman, 1912 unknown books
1791réf. 013739Mitriti: Apud Hilarium Santos 1791. Red leather spine label. Spine floral designs in gilt. Old marbled endpapers. Title-page with illustration. All edges red. Spine extremities worn as are corners. Writing in a very old hand on title-page with small area of brown spotting. See photo. Text is quite clean with occasional brown spots. 88 illustrations through the text indexed at the conclusion. 324pp. index. A rather elusive edition of Aesop's Fables published in Madrid text in Latin. Not listed in OCLC or APBC. We have seen a 1788 Madrid edition with same number of plates but a different publisher. This edition was mentioned in Blake's "Ninth Catalogue of Second-hand Books" on p.312. . Later Edition. Full Mottled Calf. General Moderate Wear/No Jacket. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2". Apud Hilarium Santos Hardcover books
1933réf. 13723AESOP'S FABLES SAMUEL CROXALL'S TRANSLATION WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE BY VICTOR SCHOLDERER AND NUMEROUS FACSIMILES OF FLORENTINE WOODCUTS Limited Editions Club 1933 first edition thus a tight vg copy with t.p.e.'s in gold-gilt. Profusely illustrated. 1/1500 copies SIGNED by designer Bruce Rogers. Limited Editions Club unknown books
1968réf. 011257Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1968 Pictorial boards with light shelf wear child's name on endpaper pages slightly age-toned. A retelling of the well-known fable with adorable color artwork by Vivienne Blake. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Vivienne Blake. Square 8vo. Rand McNally & Company unknown books
1969réf. 231756New York: P.F. Collier & Son Corp 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. 62nd. Very good plus Hardcover has gold stamping with some rubbing no dust jacket. Fables retold by Joseph Jacobs. P.F. Collier & Son Corp hardcover books
1884réf. 213868Boston MA: D. Lothrop & Co 1884. Hardcover. Good-. Red/orange boarts with gilt and black text black printed illustration on cover. Textblock fully gilt. 111 Unnumbered pages. Bw illustrations. Illustrated by E. H. Garrett F. H. Lungren F. Childe Hassam George Foster Barnes M. J. Sweeney Contents: The cats at law -- The ants and the grasshopper -- The maid and the milkpail -- The town mouse and the country mouse -- The donkey and the lion's skin -- The larks and the farmer -- The hare and the tortoise -- The fox and the stork -- The shepherd boy and the wolf -- The lion and the mouse -- The fox and the crow -- The frogs who wished a king. D. Lothrop & Co hardcover books
1979réf. 195462Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1979. Hardcover. Very Good. Red leather decorative boards. xii 130 pages : illustrations. illustrations by Robert Lawson. Easton Press hardcover books
1912réf. ST19901London & New York: William Heinemann & Doubleday Page 1912. No. 863 of 1450 SIGNED by Rackham. With an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. 290 x 227 mm. 11 1/2 x 9". xxix 1 223 1 pp. SUPERB HONEY-BROWN CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT AND INLAID BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE stamp-signed on front turn-in covers with Arts & Crafts-style frame of gilt rules punctuated with inlaid green morocco dots inlaid green morocco Tudor roses at corners with four leafy branches upper cover with gilt titling at head of central panel central gilt-ruled medallion contain the letters "E B" in inlaid blue and green morocco with a collar lettered "XMAS 1912" this surrounded by a wreath of gilt vines and eight inlaid green morocco roses raised bands spine compartments with French fillet frames two panels with gilt lettering turn-ins with multiple gilt rules top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. Housed in a felt-lined buckram clamshell box. With 20 full-page black and white illustrations numerous illustrations in the text and 13 COLOR PLATES as called for each mounted on heavy brown stock and protected by lettered tissue guard. Printed on Large Paper. WITH HAND-ILLUMINATED PRESENTATION LEAF BOUND IN: "TO EDMUND" written in burnished gold surrounded by curling leafy vines in blue orange and green "WITH BEST WISHES FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR" written in black ink an ornament below it in colors and gold and "FROM THE BINDERY / XMAS. 1912." in black and red ink at foot. Front pastedown with engraved bookplate of "EMB" and "EWB"; front free endpaper with ex-libris of L. W. Jordan Jr. and with pencilled inscription "To Roxy from Edmund." Hudson p. 169; Latimore and Haskell pp. 38-39. The typical offsetting on free endpapers from binder's glue used for turn-ins very small very faint areas of transfer from acidic mounts used for color plates wherever tissue guard doesn't fully cover a facing leaf other trivial imperfections but still QUITE A LOVELY COPY clean and fresh internally and in an unworn handsome binding. In a fine binding by an eminent English workshop this is Rackham's take on the famous fables populated with charming animals anthropomorphized to just the right degree along with wistful maidens ancient crones and some seriously sinister trees. Arthur Rackham 1867-1939 studied art at Lambeth School where the work of his fellow student Charles Ricketts influenced his development. As Houfe says soon after Rackham joined the staff of "The Westminster Budget" in 1892 he began concentrating "on the illustration of books and particularly those of a mystical magic or legendary background. He very soon established himself as one of the foremost Edwardian illustrators and was triumphant in the early 1900s when color printing first enabled him to use subtle tints and muted tones to represent age and timelessness. Rackham's imaginative eye saw all forms with the eyes of childhood and created a world that was half reassuring and half frightening. His sources were primarily Victorian and among them are evidently the works of Cruikshank Doyle Houghton and Beardsley but also the prints of Dürer and Altdorfer." After studying under and then working for Douglas Cockerell Francis Sangorski and George Sutcliffe founded their own bindery in 1901 and continued in a successful partnership until 1912. During that year the firm suffered three major blows: their famously splendid jewelled binding dubbed the "Great Omar" was lost on the Titanic; a few weeks after this accident Francis himself drowned; and Francis' brother Alberto who had been a central figure in producing the firm's vellum illuminated manuscripts went over to Riviere. Despite these losses the firm grew and prospered employing a staff of 80 by the mid-1920s and becoming perhaps the most successful English bindery of the 20th century. This special binding was created as a Christmas present and includes a hand-illuminated leaf from the bindery possibly done by Alberto before he moved to Riviere. Such a grand presentation could only have been reserved for a special patron and in this case the "Edmund" would have been Edmund DeWitt Brooks 1866-1919 the substantial bookseller and bibliophile from Minneapolis. The present volume stands as a monument to a very close friendship between Brooks as well as his wife and namesake son on one side of the Atlantic and Sangorski & Sutcliffe on the other. With a special interest in literary works particularly in fine bindings Brooks came to know his supplier through annual book-buying trips abroad see Lee Edmonds Grove's 1945 memoir "Of Brooks & Books" for an account of that relationship. Grove says that the nature of the friendship was so strong that the binders invited Brooks to stay in a specially outfitted room at their premises rather than in a hotel during his London visits. Although our Aesop was inscribed to the father his son Edmund William Brooks 1900-85 so 12 at the time the present volume was signed continued the family connection with Sangorski & Sutcliffe for many years. The "EMB" and "EWB" bookplates belonged to Edmund's wife Edith M. Brooks 1862-1957 and son Edmund who apparently lived together in the family home after the elder Edmund died. Although we don't know the identity of "Roxy" we do know that the "To Roxy from Edmund" inscription is in the same hand as an identical one made--surely by our younger Edmund as printer/publisher--at the front of a copy of "The Book of Ruth" issued in 1934 by the Reed Pale Press that copy being offered for sale in 2022 by Under the Hill Books. William Heinemann & Doubleday, Page unknown books
1975réf. 329498Boston: Gambit 1975. First. hardcover. near fine/very good-. David Levine. Selected and illustrated by David Levine with 50 humorous line drawings. 104 pages. Thin 8vo black cloth with red printed labels on cover and spine d.w. price-clipped and lightly chipped at edges with one small stain. Boston: Gambit 1975. First edition. A near fine copy in a very good- dust wrapper; inscribed by the artist on the half title along with a large original pen and ink drawing of a lion. Gambit unknown books
1793réf. 330179London: Stockdale 1793. hardcover. very good-. 2 volumes. Title page vignettes and 100 other fine engraved plates. Tall 8vos bound in full tree calf; gilt-decorated spines with red leather labels joints weak and with repairs spines rubbed; light foxing throughout most notably on the title pages. London: John Stockdale 1793. Large-paper copy printed on rag paper with excellent engravings. The application or moral is an analysis of each fable. Stockdale unknown books
1761réf. 323871Birmingham: Baskerville 1761. hardcover. good. Small 8vo 4 lxxvii 204 pages 28 page index. Copper engraved frontispiece and engraved vignette on the title page. 17 full-page copper engravings and 5 half-page illustrations. Contemporary leather boards well rubbed and crackled with early re-backing in similar brown calf with morocco spine label front cover neatly reattached. Birmingham: Printed by John Baskerville for R. and J.Dodsley 1761. Scattered foxing and early previous owner's name on title page. The first of Baskerville's books to be issued with illustrations. Baskerville unknown books
1887réf. 303211London: Routledge 1887. hardcover. very good. Edmund Evans. Engraved and colored by Edmund Evans. Many charming color plates. Slim square 8vo 7-1/4 x 7-3/4 inches. Glazed pictorial boards edges rough and covers somewhat scratched green cloth spine. London: Routledge 1887. A very good copy internally clean but for some foxing on first and last several pages. Routledge unknown books
1926réf. 288630Waltham 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. One of 350 numbered copies. Golden Cockerel unknown books
