fables translated english instructive von aesop samuel croxall (5 Ergebnisse)

Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. RO60008046: 1875. In-16. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos frotté, Intérieur bon état. 288 pages. Reliure d'éditeur rouge avec motifs décoratifs noirs et dorés sur le dos et le 1er plat. Gravure en couleur en frontispice. 1er plat et pages de garde se détachant. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

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 Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Section. 1407258. FP New Rockville Stock. Sixteenth edition, carefully revised and improved.

Leather. Zustand: Near Fine. None stated (illustrator). An excellent copy Samuel Croxall's noted edition of Aesop's fables, illustrated with wood engravings and bound by Eric Sweet in crushed quarter morocco with a clamshell casing. A nineteenth century edition of Samuel Croxall's edition.Bound 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.Illustrated with a monochrome wood engraved frontispiece and monochrome wood engraved vignettes.A charming collection of fables credited to Aesop, a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. This edition was translated and written by Samuel Croxall, and is notable for its addition of his 'instructions' to the end of each fable, which taught the reader how to apply the lessons of the fables to every day life.Bound in modern crushed quarter morocco with marbled paper to the boards, housed in a cloth clamshell box.Undated, dated by the binder's date. Bound in modern crushed quarter morocco with marbled paper to the boards, housed in a cloth clamshell box. Endpapers renewed. Externally lovely. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned pages and the odd minor spot. The clamshell is lovely. Near Fine. book.

New Edition, Improved. 12mo. xxxvi, 336p. Engraved frontis., numerous woodcuts. Marginal browning, sporadic brown stain to top edge at gutter hinge, rebound in modern calf with double blind rule to edges of boards, gilt lettered label to spine. ESTC N47273 'The London part of the imprint is false; probably printed at York.' US$549.

Zustand: Very Good. Philadelphia: L. Johnson, 1831. Reprint. 12mo. 358pp. Illustrations throughout. Bound in modern morocco with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine; recent marbled endpapers. Toning to spine and along edges; a few smudges and spots. Binding sound. Contemporary gift inscription on title page of a Catherine Martha from her affectionate Mother; interior else unmarked; Very Good. A neat little American production of the Croxall translation, impressively showcasing an illustration for each fable.