Aesop's Fables: A New Translation

London and New York: William Heinemann; Doubleday, Page & Co, 1912. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 223pp. Quarto [29.5 cm] Beige cloth over boards with decorative gilt stamping. Top edge gilt. Very good. Boards soiled. Spine darkened and spine gilt faded. 13 tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards. Numerous illustrations in black-and-white. All illustrations present. A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton and Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.

Greek storyteller Aesop's brief moral tales about animals, and one of the world's most famous collections of stories.

This Edition is limited to 1450 numbered and signed copies, of which 250 are reserved for the United States of America, 200 for Australia, and 1000 for Great Britain and Ireland. This copy is No. 1191. Signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the leading figures of the Golden Age of British book illustration. His illustrations for "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" in 1907 revolutionized book art and the publishing business. (Inventory #: 67182)