Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: grc

en_US Signed

en_US Sir Roger L'Estrange

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Gooden, Stephen

Date

2016-01-25T15:37:46Z

en_US 2014-03

en_US 1936

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:37:46Z

Date Issued

en_US 1936

Abstract

en_US Here is one of the newest jewels of the collection. I have looked for it for a long time, but the cost has been prohibitive and the edition very limited. I finally found a copy and said to myself that it belongs in the collection. I had found a similar book, perhaps an offshoot, in 2002. It was printed at Cambridge University Press and had Gooden's lovely initials but not his frontispiece or his plates. This copy has both Those twelve engravings are listed on 15. The engravings are naturally more impressive here than in the Knopf edition of 1992. One can notice the slight red imprint left from each engraving on its facing page. Several of the fables illustrated are among the less known, particularly A Camel Praying for Horns (160) and A Cunning Woman (170). I could look at Gooden's engaging initials for a very long time! The book is beautifully bound and covered, boxed, signed, and numbered. It is a real treasure!

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier #434.1

en_US 10080 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76070

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US George Harrap

en_US London

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 L43 1936b

en_US Aesop et al

Type

en_US Book, Whole