Amsterdam: Etienne Roger, 1714. Octavo. lxxxiv, 222, (ii)pp. First French edition of Barlow's engravings for both the introductory biography of Aesop and the fables. The 136 total illustrations richly depict classical, natural, and dramatic scenes, balancing the mythological and the realistic in order to convey the allegorical value both of..... More
London: A. Bettesworth, C. Hitch, et. al. 1738. Octavo. 548; 266pp. Eighth edition. Frontispiece portrait of L'Estrange. The aesthetic of this edition matches that of the bound-in Fables and Stories, which states that it is a second volume, following up the preceding Fables of Aesop, and is the fourth edition..... More
London: David Nutt, 1889. Two small octavo volumes. xx, 283; (v), 322pp. One of 550 copies. Frontispiece engravings preface both volumes, the first of which discusses the history of Aesop's Fables, and the latter of which contains the text, after William Caxton's edition of 1483. Both bound in plain wrappers..... More
Newcastle: Printed by S. Hodgson, for Emerson Charnley, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, 1820. Large paper edition. xl,332pp. Imperial octavo issue, with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Thomas Bewick by Charlton Nesbit, one of Bewick's students, after a portrait painted by Bewick's friend, William Nicholson, whose Bewick-designed bookplate is..... More
London: Bickers & Son, 1886. Octavo. xl, 312pp. Bewick's engravings, with their classic compositions and sharp details, here adorn an impressive swath of fables. Prefixed is Oliver Goldsmith's Life of Aesop, and an Essay upon Fable. A reprinting of the Newcastle Edition, originally issued by Thomas Saint in 1784. Bound..... More
Edinburgh: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co, 1879. Octavo. xl, 384pp. One of 100 copies. A deluxe reprinting of the Newcastle Edition by Thomas Saint in 1784. Bewick's engravings, with their classic compositions and sharp details, here adorn an array of fables. This edition included more of Bewick's illustrations, gathered from his..... More
London: Bickers & Son, 1871. Quarto. xl, 312pp. A large paper reprinting of the Newcastle Edition by Thomas Saint in 1784. Bewick's engravings, with their classic compositions and sharp details, here adorn an array of fables. Text pages bordered in red rules. Bound in half blue leather with gilt tooling..... More
London: David Nutt, 1897. 16mo. xii, 289pp. Frontispiece, ornate title page, chapter headers, and tail-pieces by Walter Crane evoke romance and nostalgia, befitting this revised edition of La Fontaine's tales. Bound in full red calf with gilt borders, title, and fox to upper cover. Fox motif continues in four of..... More
London: MacMillan, 1895. Octavo. xxxviii, 260, (4)pp. With Frank Calderon's ten black & white plates, and many smaller illustrations in the text. Introduction and notes by Joseph Jacobs. In an attractive publisher's binding of blue cloth, liberally gilt-stamped with a picture of the fox and some chickens among twining Art..... More
Paris: P. Rouquette, 1883. Two 16mo volumes. (viii), 315; (ii), 375pp. From an edition of 180 copies, this is one of eighty on Japon, with an extra suite of engravings. These extras are bound in according to the positions in which the final proofs appear in the text, and together..... More
Wellesley, MA: Annis Press, 1980. An archive of materials relating to the production of Four Fables from Aesop, the limited edition from Wellesley College's Annis Press for the year 1980. Included are two pieces of correspondence and many proof sheets in a variety of states with comments in pen, pencil..... More
(Portland, OR: Chamberlain Press, 1980-85). Small octavo. (112)ff. A collection of 105 engravings, all signed and numbered in pencil by Sarah Chamberlain. These hail from her major publications printed in the early 1980s via the Chamberlain Press: The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1979), A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go (1981)..... More
NY: Viking Press, 1933. First edition. Inscribed by the illustrator, Boris Artzybasheff, to Dorothy Lathrop. Twenty of Artzybasheff's inventive, cartoonish wood engravings illustrate ninety of Aesop's famed fables. Artzybasheff's work, both in book illustration and commerical art, adopted the graphic and the grotesque, imbuing humanity, both in implicit emotion and..... More
London: Heinemann, 1912. Quarto. xxx, 224pp. One of 1450 copies, signed by the artist, Arthur Rackham. Contains thirteen color plates tipped-in on brown paper, and 53 illustrations in black & white. Translated by V.S. Vernon Jones, with an Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. Bound in tan paper-covered boards backed with dark..... More
Santa Cruz, CA: Peter & Donna Thomas, 1990. 16mo. (18)pp. frenchfold. One of fifty copies. A happy collection of Aesop's amphibiously focused tales, each printed in black with title in green by Peter Thomas, and faced with a line drawing by Donna Thomas. A paper frog silhouette precedes the limitation..... More
Budapest: Borda Antikvárium, 1997. Slim octavo. (18)ff. One of 70 copies, signed by Regina Szász, who designed, illustrated, and bound the book. A charming, bilingual edition, printed in brown and black on colored papers, with a fold-out illustration for each fable. The Italian text is printed in such a way..... More
London: Scolar Press, 1976. Quarto. (4), cxlii ff. One of 500 copies. A facsimile of William Caxton's translation and publication of Aesop's Fables, produced in 1484. Introduction by Edward Hodnett. Fine in full burlap with leather spine label. More
Philadelphia and Minneapolis: Dargonet Press (i.e. Dagonet Press), (n.d.). Large octavo. (24)pp. One of sixteen copies. Signed by Anderson after the title page, and by the designer and printer, James Engelbart, at the colophon. Anderson's nine woodcuts of chickens appear opposite nine original fables. Each of these is followed by..... More
Staplehurst, Kent, UK: Florin Press, 1980. Oblong 32mo. 36pp. Of a total edition of 130 copies, this is one of eighty accompanied by a suite of proofs. Nineteen proofs of Bewick's headpieces are here printed from the original wood-blocks by R. Hunter Middleton. An additional four engravings were likewise printed..... More
Boston, MA: Nimrod Press, 1962. Elephant folio. (13)pp., + 6ff. plates. One of 550 copies. A massive, multi-colored, visual tour through some of La Fontaine's tales. Nason's woodcuts, which include a portrait of La Fontaine himself, command impressive dimensions while remaining lighthearted and earnest in weight. Bound in wrappers with..... More
NY: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931. Two large octavo vols. lxxii, 235; xxii, 336pp. One of 525 copies, signed by the illustrator and the translator below the limitation statement. Gooden's twenty-six copper engravings punctuate this pleasing pair of volumes with fantastic weight and imagination. Both volumes bound in full vellum with..... More
(Moscow: 1929). Six pen-and-ink drawings colored with watercolor, with an expressionistic look, each measuring 7 3/4 by 6 1/2 inches. These delicate, stylized illustrations are tinted with shades of orange, purple, and green. The first drawing has the title and illustrator’s name, Ausbrey, below it in Russian. The images recount..... More
Milan: Danese, 1965. Folio. (6)ff. Third variant. This game without rules consists of six plastic-coated cards, measuring about nine by eighteen inches, and printed lithographically with twelve colors. Represented on the cards are 45 animals, the sun, the moon, a cage, an anthill, and more. Each card has two slots..... More
(Boston): Boston Public Library/Society of Printers, 2001. Octavo. First edition. One of 500 copies. Thirty-two pages of color and black & white illustrations from photographs. The story of Dorothy Abbe's contributions to printing, book design, typography, photography, writing, and teaching is gathered from her archives at the Boston Public Library..... More
London: For R. Ackermann by L. Harrison and J. C. Leigh, 1814. Two 4to volumes. xxv, 275, (vi); (x), 262, (vi)pp. First edition, of a rarer issue inclusive of the thirty-three plates of Founders portraits. These, alongside the volume's regularly issued slate of aquatints and stipple and black & white..... More
