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1912Best.-Nr. IYC132297London: William Heinemann 1912. 1st thus. hardback. Very good 1st thus edition original white cloth spine and front board lettered and decorated in gilt top edge gilt others untrimmed 13 tipped-in colour plates with tissue-guards spine darkened finger-soiling to covers endpapers spotted mounts offset onto adjacent text-leaves as often qty: 1 First edition thus number 743 of 1450 copies signed by the illustrator. 4to 300 x 240 / 12"" x 9_. "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. Limited numbered edition signed by Rackham. William Heinemann hardcover
1704Best.-Nr. 2307136R. Sare 1704. 4th. very good. 4th edition corrected and amended as stated on title page. Very good condition. Some restoration to front and rear gutter with paper tape. Frontispiece of man with animals attached to verso of front free end paper. Plate in front of Sir Roger L'Estrange is missing. Small piece of paper missing at top of front paste-down browning to edges of front and rear paste-down and to end papers. R. Sare unknown
1922Best.-Nr. 354821New York: Doubleday 1922. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 224 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth covers with intact full color pastedown to front and cover and spine titles in black. A new translation by V. S. Vernon-Jones with an introduction by G. K. Chesterton and 13 full color tissue guarded plates and many black & white drawings by Arthur Rackham. Clean unmarked pages. Record # 354821 Doubleday hardcover
Best.-Nr. 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
1714Best.-Nr. 29251London: 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
Best.-Nr. 019320London: Printed for William Osborne and J and H Mozley Gainsborough. Leather. Poor. no date perhaps late 1700s. Stated new edition. Full calf leather. xlviii 228 pp. plus index. Small woodcut illustrations throughout. A collection of fables including some by Aesop gathered by R. Dodsley and accompanied by a lengthy historical introduction. Separated into three books Ancients Moderns and Newly Invented original. POOR condition. Heavy scuffing to the leather with some soiling fading and staining. Heavy wear to the leather along the edges spine and hinges with chipping and loss. Heavy cracking to the spine with loss of leather to the head and tail. Ursula written on the rear cover. Covers very tenuously attached. Text block very shaky with many leaves tenuously bound in. All endpapers missing up to the title page. Names and doodles on the inside covers. Some writing on the last page. Very very worn copy. Printed for William Osborne and J and H Mozley Gainsborough unknown
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1793Best.-Nr. H-123FIRST 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. 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. Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly hardcover
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