aesop translated roger lestrange (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Calder, Alexander (illustrator). paperback, 4to, 128pp, b/w illustrations, clean and sound, no inscriptions, corners slightly rubbed, Very Good condition. ISBN: 0486217809.

Decorated Cloth. Octavo, original pictorial cloth boards with illustration of leaves in shades of red, yellow and green, black-stamped lettering on gilt label block (these are all on both upper board and spine), "The Prize Library" lettered in black upper board, b&w illus frontis plate, many b&w illus, pp xxxii, 364. N.d., c.1890. Previous owner's inscription (dated Christmas 1900) front free endpaper, endpapers toned, otherwise clean. Corners lightly bumped, head and foot of spine lightly rubbed. Very good condition. An attractive circa 1899 edition of a comprehensive collection of Aesop's ancient fables featuring anthropomorphised animals, copiously illustrated with 110 engraved illustrations. With added "morals, applications" by George Fyler Townsend (1814?1900). Townsend's edition of Aesop's fables introduced the practice of stating a succinct moral at the conclusion of each story, and continues to be influential.

hardback, 4to, 313,(1)pp, title page and 11 copper-engraved plates plus woodcut decorative initials, all by Stephen Gooden, signed by the artist on limitation page, light foxing on page edges and some offsetting from the plates, otherwise clean and tight, no ownership marks, top edges glt, marbled endpapers, gilt-decorated full vellum binding, Very Good condition.

Blind-stamped Cloth. Zustand: Good. Detmold, Edward J. (illustrator). Signed Limited Edition. This is copy no. 537 of an edition limited to 750 copies signed by the illustrator Edward J. Detmold. Publisher's original maroon blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Series of spots to cloth of front board. Slight fraying to spine ends. Early ink name to front endpaper. Internally clean. With twenty-five tipped-in colour plates by Edward J. Detmold. The binding is unusual. One often sees the white buckram version, but the plainness of this, and the lack of gilt edges or decoration to the covers suggest it was a volume intended to forwarded to your binder to place some fancy dan affair around it. 4to. Illustrated.