Aesop's Fables
Author:
AESOP & JONES, V. S. VERNON (Trans) & RACKHAM, ARTHUR (Illus) & CHESTERTON, G. K. (Intro)
Title:
Aesop's Fables
Publisher:
William Heinemann / Doubleday Page & Co. 1912
Description:
Octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering & decorationto front board & spine, blind motif to rear board, illus eps, frontispiece, xxix + 224pp, illus, coloured plates have captioned tissue guards, G+ (one plate (The Lion, Jupiter and the Elephant) has come loose and been reattatched in the wrong place with ugly brown packing tape, 'The Quack Frog' plate is loose but present with sellotape residue staining to gutter, 'The Trees and the Axe' plate lacks tissue guard, 5cm closed tear to lower front hinge, moderate fraying to spine extrems & board corners & around tear, faint foxing to spine, moderately heavy foxing to page edges, occasional foxing to some pages, child's scribble in pencil to two pages, owner's inscription to prelim, tape repair to prelims)
Keywords:
Aesop fairy tales folk tales short stories children's literature Arthur Rackham
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