gooden stephen lestrange sir roger (2 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. R. de la Neziere; Stephen Gooden (illustrator). A delightful set of Aesop and Fontaine's fables, illustrated and published for the 'Everyman's Library Children's Classics' Two lovely anthologies of classic fables from Aesop and Jean de La Fontaine.Published for the Everyman's Library Children's Classics series.In the publisher's original cloth binding, decorated with gilt and a front board illustration. Presented here with a cloth-backed clamshell, with spine label.Comprising Sir Edward Marsh's translation of Fontaine and Sir Roger L'Estrange's translation of Aesop. Both illustrated with fifteen colour plates and vignettes to Fontaine's fables and numerous full page drawings to Aesop's.Clamshell 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 letteringartist and typographer for advertising agencies, later becoming the head ofBirmingham School of Printing. Sweet's bindings are unique and striking, reflecting the topics of the volumes in distinctivestyle. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with illustrations pasted to the front boards. Held together with a cloth-backed clamshell. Externally, lovely, with only a residue mark left by label to the rear board of 'Aesop'. Clamshell is damp stained to the top edge. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine. book.

First edition. Small quarto. Royal octavo. 313 pages. Title-page and eleven full-page copper engravings, numerous decorative initials by Stephen Gooden. Full vellum, gilt cover design of fox at centre with clusters of grapes at the corners, gilt rules, raised bands, lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Printed on handmade paper by Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press. The text follows the corrected seventh edition of 1724. This is rightly considered one of Gooden's finest works.One of 525 numbered copies signed by the artist. Covers bowed. Faint off-setting from larger plates onto pages opposite. Near fine.