Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Binding is lightly shaken; Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.9.
Verlag: William Heinemann, London, 1919
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
Cloth. Zustand: Good. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). A scarce neat collection of Aesop's fables, illustrated throughout by Arthur Rackham. Scarce work. Fourth impression, 1919. Originally published 1912. Illustrated throughout with frontispiece and twelve colour plates with tissue guards and many black and white images. Collated complete. Aesop's fables, a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Translated by V. S. Vernon Jones, an American translator. With an introduction by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, an English writer, philosopher, Christian apologist, a literary and art critic. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, an English book illustrator who is recognised as one of the leading figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light bumping and rubbing to the extremities. Cloth lifting slightly to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot or tide mark. Good. book.
Verlag: William Heinemann, London, 1912
Anbieter: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
Erstausgabe Signiert
RACKHAM, Arthur; AESOP|VERNON JONES, V.S.|CHESTERTON, G.K. (illustrator). illustrator]. AESOP, [contributor]. CHESTERTON, G.K., [contributor]. VERNON JONES, V.S., [translator]. Æsop's Fables. A new translation by V.S. Vernon Jones. With an introduction by G.K. Chesterton and illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, 1912. Full Description: [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. AESOP. Æsop's Fables. A new translation by V.S. Vernon Jones. With an introduction by G.K. Chesterton and illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann, 1912. First trade edition with an original drawing by Rackham on the half-title. Octavo (8 x 6 inches; 200 x 150 mm). xxix, [1, blank], 223, [1] pp. Thirteen color plates (including frontispiece), with descriptive tissue guards, and fifty-three drawings in black and white (nineteen full-page). Hal-title includes a half-page original drawing by Rackham of a crow and a smaller bird surrounded by a square frame and signed "AR" in the lower left corner. Below the drawing is an inscription signed "Arthur Rackham" and dated 1912. Original green buckram pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge stained green. Pictorial endpapers. Minimal foxing to endpapers. Some rubbing Along edges and top and bottom of spine. Binding slightly skewed. Front inner hinge starting but firm. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell. Overall a very good copy. Latimore and Haskell, pp. 38-39. HBS 68875. $2,500.
Verlag: London: William Heinemann., 1912
Anbieter: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
First edition. Signed Limited Edition. Original white cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. With 13 tipped in colour plates, each with a captioned tissue guard and 53 black and white drawings throughout the text by Arthur Rackham. A lovely near fine copy, the binding square and firm with some toning of the spine, the gilt titles and illustration clear and bright. The contents are entirely complete, clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. All colour plates and their tissue guards are in fine bright condition and without corner creases. A very attractive example of this beautifully illustrated Arthur Rackham signed deluxe edition. Limited to 1450 copies of which this is number 1103 and signed by Arthur Rackham in black ink on the limitation page. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Verlag: William Heimann, London, 1912
Anbieter: Studio Bibliografico Orfeo (ALAI - ILAB), Bologna, BO, Italien
Erstausgabe
30 cm, formato in 4°, rilegatura editoriale i tela bianca con titoli ed illustrazioni al piatto e dorso, tagli superiori in oro e pagine in barbe. p. xxix (1) 223 (1). Con 64 illustrazioni di cui 13 a colori fuori testo montate su cartoncino e proteste da un foglio di guardia con testo.Esemplare Assai ben conservato in splendida edizione lussuosa di 1450 esemplari numerati a mano con la firma di Arthur Rackham. Molto buono Edizione originale limitata. Es 1195 / 1450 esemplari numerati e firmati dall'artista.