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AESOP'S FABLES. A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G.K. Chesterton and Ilustrations by Arthur Rackham
1912réf. 00001047London: William Heinemann; New York: Doubleday Page & Co. 1912. xxix 223 1 pages plus color frontispiece and 12 full-page color plates. Original publisher's bluish-green cloth lettered in black with color plate mounted on front cover. 20.5 x 16 cm. Wear to the spine ends and corners with a tiny tear to the tail of the spine; dime-sized stain on the front cover at the hinge. Moderate and mostly marginal foxing throughout with more widespread foxing on a dozen or so pages especially at the front and rear of the volume. Thus good only although a solid volume. Some of the color plates show very faint marginal toning and two have a marginal smudge but the images are unblemished and all printed tissue guards are present. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION using the same sheets as the English edition with a variant binding. The English trade edition was bound in green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt with no illustration. William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page & Co. hardcover
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