aesop roger lestrange trans stephen (2 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. R. de la Neziere; Stephen Gooden (illustrator). A delightful set of Aesop and Fontaine's fables, illustrated and published for the 'Everyman's Library Children's Classics' Two lovely anthologies of classic fables from Aesop and Jean de La Fontaine.Published for the Everyman's Library Children's Classics series.In the publisher's original cloth binding, decorated with gilt and a front board illustration. Presented here with a cloth-backed clamshell, with spine label.Comprising Sir Edward Marsh's translation of Fontaine and Sir Roger L'Estrange's translation of Aesop. Both illustrated with fifteen colour plates and vignettes to Fontaine's fables and numerous full page drawings to Aesop's.Clamshell provided by Eric Sweet, a keen collector of private press and fables. He studied at the Brighton College of Art, before moving to London to work as a letteringartist and typographer for advertising agencies, later becoming the head ofBirmingham School of Printing. Sweet's bindings are unique and striking, reflecting the topics of the volumes in distinctivestyle. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with illustrations pasted to the front boards. Held together with a cloth-backed clamshell. Externally, lovely, with only a residue mark left by label to the rear board of 'Aesop'. Clamshell is damp stained to the top edge. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine. book.

London: George G. Harrap and Co., Ltd., 1936. Small 4to. Publisher's original vellum, with raised bands to spine, lettered in gilt; ornamentation and paired fillets in gilt to boards; top edge gilt, others untrimmed; marbled endpapers; in the publisher's marbled slipcase, with paper label to spine, lettered in black; pp. 314; with 12 plates, including the frontispiece; very light sunning to spine and upper edge of slipcase, with a few marks to board; a little offsetting from plates, else an exceptionally bright and clean copy.First edition of a print run limited to 525 copies, this no. 431, signed by the illustrator Stephen Gooden.