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1976réf. 962Y36London: The Scolar Press 1976. Cloth. Near Fine. 11" by 7.5". Not Stated. A superb copy of this limited edition facsimile of William Caxton's edition of Aesop's Fables complete with chemise and slipcase. A very scarce limited edition facsimile of William Caxton's 1484 edition of Aesop's fables. Limited to 500 copies of which this is number 317. Reproduced from the copy in the Royal Library Windsor Castle. With an introduction by Edward Hodnett.In the original rough cloth binding with leather spine label. This copy is also handsomely presented in uniform chemise inlaid with decorative marbled paper and slipcase both with paper spine labels. Caxton was an English merchant diplomat writer and most importantly thought to be the first person to introduce the printing press into England in 1476. His was the first translation of these classic fables and is complete with a series of woodcuts throughout. Chemise and slipcase provided 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.Loosely inserted are a series of materials including a postcard informing Eric Sweet of this book a dated written receipt and newsletters from The Scolar and Alliance Record. In the original rough cloth binding with leather spine label. Together with uniform chemise and slipcase both laid with paper spine labels. Externally excellent with only minor pink marks to the front board. Chemise and slipcase are also excellent with a couple marks to the chemise spine label. Internally firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine The Scolar Press hardcover
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
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
réf. 0843110538New. hardcover. New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. hardcover
réf. 1597641863.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2001réf. Q-0893754692Troll Communications 2001-01-26. Mass Market Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Troll Communications paperback
1996réf. Q-0395813689Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1996-09-30. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hardcover
1993réf. mon0000031771HMSO 1993-01-01. Paperback. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Clean copy sound binding. HMSO paperback
réf. 0382091523.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 9780241783078Puffin UK
réf. 1597710113.Glibrary. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
réf. 735399-6Random House Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Random House, Incorporated unknown
1985réf. 965T32London: Pelham Books 1985-1987. First edition. Hardback. Very Good Indeed. 10.5" by 8". Sven Otto S. . Two volumes of twenty fables attributed to Aesop retold for children with colour illustrations throughout. Two volumes. First UK edition. Illustrated throughout with colour images. A collection of the fables attributed to Aesop a Greek fabulist and storyteller noted for his tales characterized by anthropomorphic animal characters. Many of the tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Retold by Joan Tate a prolific English author and translator translating works by many leading Swedish and Swedish-speaking Finnish writers into English. Illustrated by Svend Otto S. a Danish illustrator and artist. This set contains: The Fox and the Stork 1985. With twenty short stories including: The Lion and the Mouse The Wolf and the Lamb and The Kid and the Wolf. The Donkey and the Dog 1987. With twenty short stories including: The Affectionate Donkey The Fox and the Grapes and The Pug and the Moon. In the original paper covered boards. Externally smart with minor wear to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Very Good Indeed Pelham Books hardcover
1694réf. 8748London. c. 1694. Bound by Richmond in full elaborately blind embossed calfskin. Guilt-tool ornamental devices to front and rear covers. Raised bands and guilt titles to spine. Marbled endsheets. Tall 4to. Early Printing. Illustrated with a frontis Depicting Aesope surrounded by animal characters. Wing A-706: Hodnett-Aesope in England 63. This copy; lacks title page ad leaf @ pg.38 and portrait of L'Estange. Spine heal lacking with lacquered repared. Corners bumped. Covers mildly rubbed. Else a Very Good sound copy. hardcover books
1929réf. 44667Chicago: Albert Whitman 1929. Third printing. Dash Joseph Eugene. 8vo pp. 254. Illustrated in black and orange by Joseph Eugene Dash. Red cloth with paper illustration on front and gilt lettering.Corners and ends of spine little scuffed or worn o/w a VG tight copy. Albert Whitman 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
19988vo., with coloured frontispiece, coloured plates and monochrome illustrations in the text; orange cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in red and black, gilt back, green top, green endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's blocked board slip-case.
réf. ST14304Verona: Officina Bodoni 1973. No. 131 OF 160 COPIES. 255 x 182 mm. 10 x 6 3/8". Two volumes. With an epilogue by Giovanni Mardersteig. Publisher's stiff vellum backed with green morocco top edges gilt. WITH 68 FINE HAND-COLORED WOODCUTS by Ann Bramanti 66 of these full-page colored via pochoir by Daniel Jacomet to recreate the illuminated miniature effect of the British Library colored copy of the Veronese Aesop of 1479 upon which the present edition is based. Printed on Magnani mouldmade paper with goose watermark. Volume I: the Latin text of the 1479 edition with Italian translation; volume II: the English text based on Caxton's 1482 translation. Prospectus laid in. Mardersteig/Schmoller 182. ◆Vellum grain showing variation as always otherwise in mint condition. This beautiful limited edition of Aesop is generally considered to be the finest book from Officina Bodoni and is thought by many to be among the half dozen greatest private press books ever printed. Probably the most important certainly the longest-lived 20th century Continental private press Officina Bodoni was founded in 1922 by Hans Mardersteig who later changed his first name to Giovanni. Like Sweynheym and Pannartz the first printers in Italy Mardersteig was born in Germany but moved to Italy as an adult and set up his hand press in a small village there. Will Carter has called Mardersteig "probably the finest pressman the world has ever seen or is ever likely to see" and it is difficult to overstate the pleasure derived from the precision of the Officina Bodoni books. Based on a beautiful hand-colored copy of the Aesop of Giovanni Alvise the third printer in Verona the Officina Bodoni Aesop celebrates the golden anniversary of Mardersteig's founding of his press. Officina Bodoni unknown books
2016réf. 54215Norwalk Connecticut: The Easton Press 2016. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. Detmold Edward. Large quarto 12" x 9-3/4". 208pp. Light tan leather elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt. A.e.g. Housed in publisher's matching cloth slipcase. Illustrated with all the original 25 stunning color illustrations that bring these timeless characters to life. This now out-of-print facsimile edition is limited to 800 copies. A fine as new copy still in publisher's shrinkwrap and the original shipping box. "The Fables of Aesop is perhaps Detmold's greatest masterpiece." Publisher. The Easton Press hardcover books
réf. 008596New York: Hodder & Stoughton Book. Very Good. Hardcover. American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No Date 1909-1912. Collects 313 of Aesop's classic fables and features 23 mounted full-color plates all present by Detmold. Originally published by Hodder and Stoughton in London in 1909 in a limited edition this American edition is quite uncommon in commerce. Very Good in original embossed green cloth with gilt lettering illustrated end papers small prior owner name in ink scattered moderate toning throughout spine evenly sunned to pale green mounting page for illustration at p.134 loose. Still an attractive copy with all of the marvelous Detmold illustrations. Hodder & Stoughton Hardcover books
1998réf. 89496London:: Folio Society. Near Fine. 1998. Hardcover. First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine slipcase.; 152 pages . Folio Society, hardcover books
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.
1823réf. 75538Newcastle: T. Bewick & Son. Very Good. 1823. Fine Binding. This book has been re-bound hard-bound in a fine binding of smooth green leather with gilt-stamping raised bands and gilt stamped leather labels on the spine. The covers show some light scuffing and sunning edge-wear and light rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. The spine is lightly sunned. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and legible with vignette illustrations but also with some damp-staining to the outer edge of some of the pages. Limited # 243 with a facsimile signature and "thumbprint" of Thomas Bewick on the Limitation Page. . T. Bewick & Son unknown books
1798réf. 1407258London: Printed for C. Dilly . et al. 1798. Sixteenth edition carefully revised and improved. Hardcover. 12mo xxiv 329 pages. In Fair plus condition. Spine is brown without print. Boards in brown leather; worn spine caps and corners torn hinges toning. Text block has cracked hinges light amount of occasional foxing creasing to corners of final pages tear to rear flyleaf. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece and text engravings. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #4. 1407258. FP New Rockville Stock. Printed for C. Dilly ... [et al.] hardcover books
réf. 23025London: 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. Warne And Co hardcover books
