first edition
by RACKHAM, Arthur; AESOP
London and New York: William Heineman: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912. First Trade Edition, Unrecorded Variant
In Publisher's Deluxe Full Suede Binding
[RACKHAM, Arthur]. Aesop's Fables. A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton and Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London and New York: William Heineman: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912.
First trade edition, unrecorded deluxe binding. Octavo (8 x 6 inches; 202 x 152 mm.). [1-iv], v-xxix, [1, blank], 223, [1] pp. Thirteen color plates, including frontispiece, all with captioned tissue guards. Fifty-three black and white drawings in the text, of which nineteen are full page.
Publisher's original full limp brown suede. Front cover pictorially decorated in blind and lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers printed in green, top edge gilt. With the original glassine dust jacket and the publisher's original printed box. A fine copy with the glassine jacket a little worn at extremities and the box with neat tape reinforcement to lower edges, but still near fine.
Binding variant unrecorded by Latimore and Haskell, and Riall. In over forty years of dealing in Rackham material, we have only seen this variant binding once before in 2011, also in the original box.
"In Aesop's Fables (1912)... Rackham's primary intention was to amuse, but his illustrations for fables of 'The Moon and her Mother' and 'The Gnat and the Lion' suggest the imaginative refinement that he brought to the task. Rackham was often his own model; there are several self-caricatures to be detected in Aesop's Fables. He is the man who catches the flea, the pompous gentleman who scolds the drowning boy, the credulous slave-owner who scrubs the black boy" (Hudson, Derek. Arthur Rackham His Life and Work, p. 94).
Cf. Latimore and Haskell pp. 38-9; Cf. Riall, p. 111. (Inventory #: 06047)
In Publisher's Deluxe Full Suede Binding
[RACKHAM, Arthur]. Aesop's Fables. A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton and Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London and New York: William Heineman: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912.
First trade edition, unrecorded deluxe binding. Octavo (8 x 6 inches; 202 x 152 mm.). [1-iv], v-xxix, [1, blank], 223, [1] pp. Thirteen color plates, including frontispiece, all with captioned tissue guards. Fifty-three black and white drawings in the text, of which nineteen are full page.
Publisher's original full limp brown suede. Front cover pictorially decorated in blind and lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers printed in green, top edge gilt. With the original glassine dust jacket and the publisher's original printed box. A fine copy with the glassine jacket a little worn at extremities and the box with neat tape reinforcement to lower edges, but still near fine.
Binding variant unrecorded by Latimore and Haskell, and Riall. In over forty years of dealing in Rackham material, we have only seen this variant binding once before in 2011, also in the original box.
"In Aesop's Fables (1912)... Rackham's primary intention was to amuse, but his illustrations for fables of 'The Moon and her Mother' and 'The Gnat and the Lion' suggest the imaginative refinement that he brought to the task. Rackham was often his own model; there are several self-caricatures to be detected in Aesop's Fables. He is the man who catches the flea, the pompous gentleman who scolds the drowning boy, the credulous slave-owner who scrubs the black boy" (Hudson, Derek. Arthur Rackham His Life and Work, p. 94).
Cf. Latimore and Haskell pp. 38-9; Cf. Riall, p. 111. (Inventory #: 06047)
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