Aesop Et Al (13 results)

Condition: Very Good. Unknown. Small quarto, hardcover, VG in lightly edgeworn pictorial white dj. 268 pp. A wonderfully diverse collection featuring stories and poems from around the world and across time. Drawn together in one volume many famous writers with excerpts from treasured classics are given here. A wonderful introduction to great literature for the young reader. Book.…

Condition: Good. 1962. No Edition Remarks. 160 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Illustrations by Will Nickless. Colour frontispiece & plates with numerous line drawings. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. New Revised Edition. 240 Short Stories for Children. Weir, Harrison; Tenniel, John, Griset, Ernest, et al (illustrator).

Pictorial hard covers. Condition: V.g. No Jacket. 1st UK edition. Little used. 22 stories. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Octavos, softcovers, all VG in VG brown and white decorative box. Contains: Aesop - Fables and Medieval Tales, Household Tales; It's Perfectly True and Other Stories; Treasure Island; A Christmas Carol, the Happy Prince and Other Tales; Jungle Books; the Brothers Grimm authors include Hans Christian Anderson, Robert Browning, Jean Henri Fabre, Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde, Stevenson etc. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Reprint. Everyman's Library 657; 231 pages; Dust jacket is yellowed, with open and closed tears. Yellowing to pages. Stains (light) to exterior edge of pages only. Foxing to the exterior edge of pages only. Good overall condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

Leather. Condition: Poor. no date, perhaps late 1700s. Stated new edition. Full calf leather. xlviii, 228 pp., plus index. Small woodcut illustrations throughout. A collection of fables, including some by Aesop, gathered by R. Dodsley and accompanied by a lengthy historical introduction. Separated into three books, Ancients, Moderns and Newly Invented (original). POOR condition. Heavy scuffing to the leather, with some soiling, fading and staining. Heavy wear to the leather along the edges, spine and hinges, with chipping and loss. Heavy cracking to the spine, with loss of leather to the head and tail. Ursula written on the rear cover. Covers very tenuously attached. Text block very shaky, with many leaves tenuously bound in. All endpapers missing up to the title page. Names and doodles on the inside covers. Some writing on the last page. Very very worn copy.…

Softcover, wraps. Condition: Good +. (1861). Twenty-fourmo. (3.75" x 5.75"), pale green printed wraps. 24pp. with publisher's ads on the back cover. Illustrated with wood engravings in the text and as title vignette. Moderate foxing and browning with a one-inch split at the bottom of he spine. Scarce chapbook, with misspelled title "The Lark and Her Yonug Ones". …

Hardcover. Later printing. Duodecimo (5" x 7.25"), green red and gilt-stamped pictorial cloth with gilt spine. All edges gilt. Back cover decorated in blind. 312pp. Profusely illustrated throughout the text "with the original wood engravings by Thomas Bewick". Two former owners' names and an inscription on the verso of the front free-endpaper. Some wear at extremities, particularly the head and tail, but still a lovely copy. "In Three Parts. I. Fables Extracted from Dodsley's; II. Fables with Reflections in Prose and Verse; III. Fables in Verse. To which are prefixed The Life of Aesop, and An Essay Upon Fable by Oliver Goldsmith. Faithfully Reprinted from the Rare Newcastle Edition published by T. Saint in 1784.".…

12mo (134 x 67 mm). Collation: A-R12. 394, [14] pp. 2 parts, separately titled, second title-page on F5r. Woodcut printer?s device on titles, 120 text woodcuts, a very few repeated. A few cuts with black dots (e.g., on p. 257), apparently from wormed blocks. Fol. K12 with short closed tear touching a woodcut, a few headlines shaved; some light discoloration. Late 18th-century English green calf, covers with gilt intertwining feather and pointill? border, smooth spine gold-paneled and tooled with 3 different all-over patterns, red calf lettering piece, gilt edges, marbled endleaves (worn: spine cracked, headcaps gone). Provenance: a member of the Fletcher family: engraved armorial bookplate, two gryphons as supporters, motto ?Dieu pour nous,? the shield described by Burke as ?sable, a cross flory argent between four escallops. Crest a bloodhound azure, ducally gorged or.?*** An illustrated pocket edition of 400 fables from Aesop and other traditions, specifically intended for children, preceded by Giulio Landi?s life of the semi-mythic fabulist. The charming, simple but decisively cut woodcut illustrations are typical of the early productions of the Remondini firm, who used the blocks as well in several Latin editions of the fables. Giovanni Antonio Remondini (1634-1711), an enterprising businessman whose earliest commercial successes were in wool production, was the founder of the long-lived Bassano print publishing firm, later known for its paper production. Specialized at first in the production of popular prints, mainly engravings, the firm?s typographic activities were circumscribed until the mid-18th century by the Venetian monopoly of book production; thus the Remondinis? earlier typographical output was limited to popular chapbooks and devotional works for a local readership, usually in small formats, and often illustrated with quickly but skillfully cut woodcuts, as here. This undated edition corresponds with the below-cited ICCU record in its pagination and fingerprints, but several mispaginations described in ICCU were here corrected. The ICCU editors note two variants, one with the place of publication given as Bassano only, and this state or issue, with imprint ?In Venetia, et in Bassano,? dubbed variant B. ICCU ITICCULO1E04628; cf. M. Infelise, I Remondini di Bassano (1980), pp. 23-33 and 132-3.…

2/50 COPIES printed on handmade paper at the Alcuin Press, 23 etchings by Gheeraerts, pp. [vi], 52, 4to, original quarter vellum with blue cloth sides, the upper board with gilt-stamped border, the cloth to upper board faded to purple at margins, that to lower similarly faded excepting one quarter, small spot to upper joint, t.e.g., others untrimmed, free endpapers faintly browned, very good. A handsome edition, based - in the illustrations - on editions from 1567 and 1617, and in the translation on editions of 1692 and 1724. …

First Edition. 8vo, pp.iv, 64; 227, [1]; woodcut head- and tailpieces; Greek and Latin partly on facing pages; a very good copy in contemporary speckled calf, spine neatly restored, corners bumped, later morocco spine label; ownership and gift inscription to front endpaper 'Georg Perrott's Book 1755 | December 15th d.data a R.Y.'; modern armorial bookplate of Denis Gibbs.First edition thus, scarce, a Scottish school textbook comprising selections in Greek and Latin from Aesop's Fables, Lucian's Dialogues, the orations of Isocrates, and the Tablet of Cebes. The George Perrott who owned, and gifted, this copy was perhaps the Yorkshire-born lawyer of that name (d.1806), who became judge of the Court of Exchequer in 1763, pipping Blackstone to the post. ESTC T83889, recording six copies in the UK and two in the US (UCLA and Virginia). Language: Greek.…

179 (recte: 279) Seiten, (9) Seiten (Inhaltsverzeichnis), Pergamentband der Zeit mit zwei auf den Falz gezogenen Pergamentriemchen, handschriftlicher Rückentitel, 14 x 7,5 cm. Neuausgabe der Fabelanthologie "Aesopus Dorpii" (fußend wohl auf dem ersten italienischen "Aesopus Dorpii": Venedig, Remondini, um 1550). Unser Exemplar textidentisch mit Bodemann 64.1. - Mit Holzschnitt-Druckermarke auf dem Titelblatt (wolkenumwobenes Hand-Zirkel-Motiv in einem Oval; darüber ein Totenkopf, auf dem flankierenden Spruchband "Labore et Constantia"). - Inhalt: "Aesopi fabulatoris vita" (Planudes); Vorspann (Auszüge aus Aphthonius mit "Fabula qua formicarum, [et] cicadarum exemplo, hortantur iuvenes ad laborem", Philostratos und Hermogenes); 33 Fabeln des Lorenzo Valla mit Widmungsvorrede an Arnoldus Favolleda von 1438; "Aliae item aliquot Aesopi fabulae" (ungeklärte Autorenschaft ["incerto interpretes"]; 78 Fabeln), 45 Fabeln in der Bearbeitung des Goudanus mit Widmungsbrief "Diui Aurelii Augustini, Florentino suo, illustri Baroni Iselsteino. S.D."; "Aesopi fabulae trigintasex" (Barlandus; 36 Fabeln); "Aniani fabulae quatuor" (Barlandus; 4 Fabeln); "Aniani fabulae trigintaocto" (Hermannus; 38 Fabeln); "Aesopi fabulatoris clarissimi apologi" (Rinuccio d'Arezzo; 100 Fabeln) mit "Argumentum"; "Apologi ex chiliadibus adagiorum desumpti, ad communem puerorum fructum (Erasmus von Rotterdam; 9 Fabeln); weitere Fabeln von Politianus (1), Petrus Crinitus (1), Johannes Antonius Campanus (2), Plinius (1) und Gellius (2); am Schluß das Register ("Index fabularum"). - Alle Fabeln mit Adfabulatio. - Mit 66 einfach gerahmten Textholzschnitten (mit einigen Wiederholungen); meist zwischen Überschrift und Fabeltext eingesetzt. Die Übernahme der Bildmotive aus den Holzschnittserien (Nachschnitte) von Bernard Salomon (vgl. Bodemann 40.1 und 27.1). Auch in unserem Exemplar wurde "das ideale und antikisierende Ambiente durch typisch italienische Landschaften und einfache, bäuerliche Umgebung abgelöst" (Bodemann 40.1). - Bernard Salomon (auch: Bernardus Gallus), 1506/1510 bis 1561, französischer Maler, Zeichner und (mutmaßlich) Holzschneider. Thieme-Becker XXIX 354. - Antoine du Verdier, La Bibliothèque, Lyon, Honorat, 1585, 119 ("tres-excellent tailleuer d'histoires"). - Mit einigen Paginierungsfehlern (Zahlensprünge von den Seite 60 auf 91, 88 auf 68, 95 auf 69, 277 auf 178/179 usw.). Nach Kustoden und Inhalt vollständig. - Provenienz 1.: Ad (usum?) Georgij Brentani, Roma (Namenszug von alter Hand auf dem vorderen fliegenden Vorsatzblatt); mutmaßlich Georg Brentano (1775-1851; deutscher Großkaufmann, Bankier, Gutsherr und Kunstsammler aus Frankfurt a.M.). Von selber Hand der Rückentitel und weitere Marginalien (Kollation?) auf dem hinteren fliegenden Vorsatzblatt recto und verso. - Provenienz 2.: E[?] Stückelberg, Roma (Namenszug von jüngerer Hand auf dem vorderen Spiegel); mutmaßlich Ernst Stückelberg (1831-1903; eidgenössischer Maler aus Basel). - Handschriftliche Phantasien von einer weiteren jüngeren Hand auf dem hinteren Vorsatzblatt und dem hinteren Spiegel (die Handschrift in zartem Bleistift und in einer Melange aus Kurrent und Antiqua sowie in teils radebrechendem Deutsch); Themen der Phantasie sind der "Prinz von Baroda", "Arbaces aus Hinterindien", "Grüsse von Celebes", Alpenüberquerungen und die Basler Kunsthalle. - Der Einband minimal berieben (Rückdeckel) und mit pergamenttypischer Patina; etwas sperrend; einige wenige Seiten mit der zarten Andeutung von Flecken; das untere Drittel des hinteren fliegenden Vorsatzblatts fehlend; sonst und insgesamt gutes, wohlerhaltenes Exemplar. …