Item
Aesop's Fables: Samuel Croxall's Tran
- Title
- Aesop's Fables: Samuel Croxall's Tran
- Limited Editions Club
- 0
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- #289 of 1500; signed by Bruce Rogers
- Samuel Croxall's Translation with a Bibliographical Note by Victor Scholderer
- Creator
- en_US Samuel Croxall's Translation with a Bibliographical Note by Victor Scholderer See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Numerous Facsimiles of Florentine Woodcuts
- en_US Victor Scholderer
- Date
- 2016-04-20T15:51:10Z
- 2015-08
- en_US 1933
- Date Available
- 2016-04-20T15:51:10Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1518
- Abstract
- en_US I went after a third copy of this book because it was being offered so economically on eBay. I think it eluded the notice of other serious seekers. Like the first copy I found, this is numbered and signed by Bruce Rogers. As I mentioned when I first found that other book many years ago, this is one of the nicest books I have. A triumph of the bookmaking art. The 46 facsimiles are beautifully reproduced. Very close to del Tuppo (eg #37 and #192), they often show two or three phases in one scene. #83, #162, #168, and #197 are well told and funny. In #173, the bat leaves both sides on his own initiative. How were the facsimiles printed? This and several similar cases have convinced me now to keep all the copies of valuable books like this -- especially those that have any difference like different numbering -- in the collection as separate listings. This copy once belonged to Howard Eleveth.
- Identifier
- 10604 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Oxford University Press
- Oxford
- Subject
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Type
- Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection