fables von aesop croxall lestrange (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No date but c. 1920. Number 19 in the Juvenile Reader's Library. Tears to top of spine. Toning to covers. Heavy tanning within. Binding sound. Fair.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition Thus. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1903. Copyright 1903, this copy undated but sometime before 1910. Printed calico style cotton fabric binding with paper labels to front and spine, tissue protected black and white frontis plate, 230 pages, no dustjacket as issued. Generally good condition with some wear through and fraying to the corners and spine ends, minor chipping to labels, good hinges, sound text block, some uneven darkening to top of text block, tissue over frontis starting to detach, short closed tear to lower margin of introduction, pages clean, gift notation from 1910 on preliminary blank, no other markings. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Various (illustrator). A richly illustrated edition of Aesop's Fables, featuring 159 of these timeless tales with additional moral applications by Rev. G. F. Townsend and L. Valentine. In the publisher's original red cloth binding, with blind stamp.This edition is notable for containing 159 of Aesop's fables, accompanied by 110 original illustrations.This edition is undated, this copy has been dated using Jisc, from a copy held at The National Trust Libraries.This copy includes fables such as "The Wolf and the Lamb", "The Frog and the Fox", "The Boy and his Mother", "Snake and the Crab", "Wasps in a Honey-pot", "The Fortune Teller", "The Ox and the Frog", "The Wind and the Sun", "The Viper and the File", "The Ant and the Fly", "The Cat and the Cock", among many others. This copy is also notable for including moral applications by the Reverend George Fyler Townsend and L. Valentine.Aesop was a storyteller who is thought to have lived in ancient Greece around the 6th century BCE. He is best known for his collection of fables featuring anthropomorphic animals that illustrate moral lessons of honesty, wisdom and kindness. These fables have become enduring classics, continuing to be shared with generation after generation. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. One or two handling marks to the boards, with a couple of spots of damp staining to rear boards. Rubbing and bumping to extremities. Joints strained, rear joint separated about four inches at the centre, and slightly at the extremities, but holding firm. Previous owner's inscription to front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, if a little age toned. One or two handling marks to fore edge. The odd spot. Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 2. Auflage. 26,5 x 19,5 cm, red full cloth with gold cover illustration and spine decorations, gilt edges, 422 pages, with numerous splendid illustrations by Ernest Griset. Probably the 2nd, 422-page enlarged edition with the same cover as the first edition (in 1869, with only 244 pp.) --- Binding with signs of wear, ex-libris on inside cover, early dated dedication on front endpaper, only a few sporadic stains. Very good, tight copy with the beautiful illustrations by Ernest Griset. --- Ernest Henri Griset (1843, Boulogne-sur-Mer - 1907, London) is known as the illustrator of numerous children's books and Punch magazine for his humorous animal drawings. Many examples of Griset's work can be found in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Some of his comic work appeared in Punch, where he was briefly on the staff between 1867-9, as well as in its competitor, Fun. He left Punch at the age of twenty four and worked on illustrating Aesop s Fables (1869). Of this work a reviewer noted that "nothing so quaint as these illustrations has appeared since the days of GrandvilleGriset possesses the faculty of investing his animals with human expression, without ever causing them to lose their own identity, and of making them funny without being ridiculous.".

Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. RO60137739: 1889. In-8. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Coiffe en tête abîmée, Intérieur acceptable. 363 pages. Gravure en noir et blanc en frontispice. Illustré de nombreuses gravures en noir et blanc dans le texte. Texte en anglais (English). . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. None stated (illustrator). A strikingly bound copy of Aesop's fables, with charming illustrations throughout, bound by Eric Sweet with moire cloth panels and a cloth chemise and slipcase. A new edition. Part of the 'Chandos Classics' series.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 one hundred and ten monochrome illustrations, including a frontispiece, and an illustrated title page.A charming collection of fables credited to Aesop, a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. This edition has been translated by Samuel Croxall and Sir Roger L'Estrange, and contains George Fyler Townsend's and L. Valentine's 'new applications, morals, etc'.Bound in cloth with moire cloth panels, endpapers and blanks renewed, with a cloth chemise and slipcase. Bound in cloth with moire cloth panels, endpapers and blanks renewed, with a cloth chemise and slipcase. Externally lovely. The chemise is lovely, and the slip excellent with light damp staining to the head. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with the odd minor spot only. Light owner's stamp to the title page. Fine. book.