Published by Seller Inventory # 012922. Condition: Very Good. Aesop's Illustrated Fables features more than 400 fables, beautifully illustrated with engravings and color plates by Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane, and Ernest Griset. Condition: Good. Hodder & Stoughton/ The Musson Book Company, London/Toronto. Glossy Pictorial Boards. THE FABLES OF AESOP, and Others, with Designs on Wood by T. Bewick. Bickers and Son, London, From: Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection (Illustrated and Annotated) (Literary Classics Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. ; Germano Ovani; Simona Bucan; Daniela Pellegrini; Manuela Cenci;] -- This collection of Aesop's best-known fables is divided into four separate categories based Condition: Very Good. Pressure mark on top edge of rear board. And most importantly, your children would love the experience. Edward J. Detmold (illustrator). Also includes additional 19th century black and white drawings of Randolph Caldecott. Cloth. The illustrated covers are fresh, showing next to no wear. Many pages as yet unopened. Something went wrong. Printed by Edward Walker Front inner hinge cracked, else a very good copy. The book has the bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper of Francis J. Shepherd, who was an professor of Anatomy and Emeritus Dean of Medicine at McGill University, and the former president of the Canadian Medical Association. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. The general impression is of a slightly shabby -- but still bright and attractive -- little book. No Jacket. 7. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Limited Edition. Overall it was alright as a quick, snappy read. 2nd Edition.
Please try again. This book introduces the child to some outstanding names in the world of books, from the Introduction by G.K. Chesterton to the colour art by Arthur Rackham. What turned up is an illustrated book containing just 12 - 1 per page with a picture. There are 9 fables. Originally published in the 1950s. Scans are available on request. There is a vintage Christmas seal on the top corner of the free front end paper with the name of a former owner, a gift inscription (dated Xmas 1957) on the verso, and her name again on the top corner of the title page. Signed. CONTAINING THE HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF WATER BIRDS. Size: 4to. Inscribed by David Levine to Greg Gatenby. 224 pp. Take this gem for example "The Fox and the Mask: A fox had stolen into the house of an actor, and as he was rummaging among the actor's possessions, he found a remarkable mask that was a fine imitation of a human head..... What a fine looking head! No date or place of publication stated, circa. Preceded by nine page "Life of Aesop" by Oliver Goldsmith. There is a wide assortment of illustrational styles, I and the list of artists reads like a "Who's Who" of 19th and early 20th century art: Edwin Noble, Arthur Rackham, Alex and Calder, Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, Milo Winter, Jack Orr, and Sophia Rosamund Praeger. Illustrated in black and white. No Jacket. 28 cm. This edition limited to seven hundred and fifty numbered copies and signed by illustrator Edward Detmold, this is no. Pressure mark on top edge of rear board.
Very clean within.
Very disappointed, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 28, 2019. Ian Thompson - Hans Christian Anderson Award winner, Zwerger chose and illustrated the fables in her very own unique style - like new copy.
This entertaining selection contains The Hare and the Tortoise, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, The Boy Who Cried Wolf and eight other favourite fables retold with all the fun of the originals, but without the morals!
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Aesop's fables are beautifully, beautifully illustrated in this edition - I'm glad i got it just for the pictures, which are lovely.