Aesop’s Fables – Aesop – 1912 | Signed Rackham Limited First

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Aesop’s fables – aesop – 1912 | signed rackham limited first | signed 1912 limited edition of aesop’s fables with 13 tipped-in color plates by arthur rackham in original white cloth gilt binding.

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Signed 1912 limited edition of Aesop’s Fables with 13 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham in original white cloth gilt binding.

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Aesop’s Fables 1912 Rackham edition is a signed, numbered first edition limited to 1450 copies, printed for British, Irish, American, and Australian audiences. This is copy number 593, signed in ink by Arthur Rackham. Published by William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page & Co., the volume features 65 illustrations, including 13 mounted color plates. The translation is by V.S. Vernon Jones, with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton.

 

Bibliographic Details

  • Title: Aesop’s Fables. A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones; with an Introduction by G.K. Chesterton; and Illustrations by Arthur Rackham
  • Author(s): Aesop
  • Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham
  • Contributor(s): V.S. Vernon Jones (Translator); G.K. Chesterton (Introduction)
  • Publisher: London: William Heinemann; New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
  • Edition: First edition, 1912. Signed and numbered limited edition of 1450 copies.
  • Format: Octavo, single volume
  • Binding: White cloth with gilt design and titling
  • Size:  11.75 in x 9.5 in (29.5 cm x 24 cm)
  • Collation: xxix, [1], 223, [1] pp
  • Illustrations: 65 total (13 color tipped-in plates with tissue guards; 52 black-and-white in-text drawings)
  • Contents Include:
    • The Fox and the Grapes
    • The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs
    • The Mice in Council
    • The Wolf and the Lamb
    • The Lion and the Mouse
  • Provenance: Signed by Arthur Rackham, copy number 593 of 1450
  • Reference(s): Riall p.111

 

Condition:

Bound in full white cloth with gilt decoration to front board and spine. The book retains its original endpapers and uncut edges. Internally, the pages are clean with moderate foxing to prelims and limitation leaf. All illustrations are present; tissue guards are intact. Binding remains firm and square.

 

Why Collect This?

  • Signed limited edition (No. 593 of 1450)

13 mounted color plates by Rackham

INVENTORY NUMBER (SKU): #28707

Categories

Children's

Literature

Arts & Architecture

Authors

Aesop

Printing Date

20th Century

Language

English

Binding

Hardcover

Book Condition

Near Fine

Collation

Complete

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