Aesop
The Fables of Aesop
The Golden Cockerel Press
1926
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A finely bound edition of The Fables of Aesop.
- Aesop (Greek).
- Translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange.
- Waltham Saint Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1926.
- With wood-engraved silhouettes by the Central School of Arts and Crafts illustrator Celia M. Fiennes (1902-1998).
- Part of a limited edition, this being number 250 of 350 copies.
- Bound in green morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, the upper panel onlaid with cockerel design in red, within quadruple gilt frame, spine lettered in gilt, top-edge gilt, others uncut.
A copy of an important illustrated edition of Aesop’s Fables, the text taken from the 1692 edition of L’Estrange’s translation.
"The work of the engravers of Golden Cockerel books gives the Press its greatest distinction and made a whole period of woodcut revival" (Franklin).
Provenance
Captain Richard Campbell, OBE, RN (bookplate).
Condition Report
Very GoodBookplate to front free endpaper verso.
Slight offsetting to margins of endpapers.
Minor abrasion to rear panel.
Minor signs of age and handling.
Product is used.
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