Item
Fables from Aesop
- Title
- en_US Fables from Aesop
- Contributor
- en_US Billinghurst, Percy
- Date
- 2023-09-20T15:17:09Z
- 2022-12
- en_US 1910?
- Date Available
- 2023-09-20T15:17:09Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1910
- Abstract
- en_US Here is the seller's description: "Thought to be around 1910, collection of 12 fables with fine colour lithographic plates throughout. Original cloth spine and pictorial boards good with a little general wear and rubbing. Contents clean and tight, missing title page, tape marks from repair to front hinge, no inscriptions, a little dust soiled, no foxing. A very good copy with superb illustrations. Size: 8vo." I confirm that the eleven duochrome (green and brown) illustrations are very well done. Red, black, and blue CP on the cover. It turns out that this book is a rendition in smaller format (6½" x 8") of an edition published by Henry Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton in about 1908. Though the texts are the same as in that larger edition, the typeface is different. I am proud that detective work on the initials of the artist led me to identifying the work of Percy Billinghurst, and I was able to go from there to find this larger edition in our collection. The front cover here shows CP, while that larger edition has a fox reading a book.
- Identifier
- en_US 13293 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Subject
- Aesop See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books