[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Aesop Aesop's Fables
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Description
London: William Heinemann/New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912. First and limited edition, #68/1,000 numbered copies, signed by Rackham (from a total edition of 1,450). 4to. (xxx), (224) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 11 color plates, all tipped-in and all with captioned tissue guards, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's cream cloth, stamped in gilt, spine darkened, boards lightly soiled; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; foxing to endpapers and prelims, scattered very light foxing to text, very small ink blot in bottom edge of pp. 155-58, leaves opposite verso of plates browned from heavy brown paper, as usual; Latimore & Haskell, p. 39; Rial, p. 111
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From the Children’s and Illustrated Books Library of Nicholas Wedge, Ossining, New York
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