Aesop Stephen Gooden Roger Lestrange (9 results)
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Seller: Chiron Media, Wallingford, United KingdomChiron Media
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Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United KingdomGreatBookPricesUK
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Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United KingdomGreatBookPricesUK
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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
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Seller: BennettBooksLtd, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.BennettBooksLtd
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Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.
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Language: English
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, 1936
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- First Edition
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Seller: Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, ABAA/ILAB, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, ABAA/ILAB
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Limited edition, being number 57 of 525 copies, signed by the illustrator Stephen Gooden. Translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange and featuring an engraved title page, 11 engraved plates and pictorial initials. Bound in the original full velum, decorated in gilt. Housed in a custom slipca…se. London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1936. Publisher's original vellum, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, device in fourth compartment gilt, fox device on front cover gilt, covers bordered with gilt rules and cornerpiece, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt; pp. 313, [1]. A very good or better copy. Minor shelfwear to boards with a light bump to top front corner, traces of soiling to boards. Spine a touch toned, rubbing near spine crown, near imperceptible slip along one spine compartment. Foxing to prelims, else internally clean. A very nice copy of this beautiful volume. Signed by Illustrator(s).
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Jean de La Fontaine and Aesop Fables (Everyman's Library Children's Classics)
Jean de La Fontaine; Aesop; Sir Roger L'Estrange [trans.]; Sir Edward Marsh [trans.]
Published by Everyman's Library Children's Classics 1992-2001, London, 1992
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Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Near Fine. 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 bin…ding, 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. R. de la Neziere; Stephen Gooden (illustrator). book.
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Published by George G. Harrap and Co, London, 1936. Limited edition, copy number 390 of 525 copies,, 1936
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Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United KingdomBRIMSTONES
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Add to baskethardback, 4to, 313,(1)pp, title page and 11 copper-engraved plates plus woodcut decorative initials, all by Stephen Gooden, signed by the artist on limitation page, light foxing on page edges and some offsetting from the plates, otherwise clean and tight, no ownership marks, top edges glt, marbled endpapers, gilt-decorated full…vellum binding, Very Good condition.
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Published by George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd, London, 1936
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Seller: Antiquariaat Tanchelmus bv, Berchem, BelgiumAntiquariaat Tanchelmus bv
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Add to basketVellum. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Vellum: Very Good, 26 x 18 cm, 312 pp., English, Signed by Illustrator, 1st Edition, illustrations, book condition: As New Numbered edition: 332/525, slightly discolored spine and covers, gold stamped illustrations and title Limited edition: This is the limited luxury edition of only 525 n…umbered copies for worldwide sale: number 332. Signature: Hand-signed by the master engraver Stephen Gooden on the limitation page. Illustrations: Featuring a beautifully engraved title page, 12 full-page copper engravings, and numerous decorative initials and vignettes by Stephen Gooden. The engravings are printed razor-sharp on heavy, quality handmade paper (rag paper) with uncut edges (deckled edges). Text: The classic and much-loved historical English translation by Sir Roger L'Estrange from 1692. Binding: Original, full white vellum binding (Full Vellum) with rich gilt decorations on both the front and back. The top edge is gilt (top edge gilt). [This description may have been translated by AI.]. Stephen Gooden (illustrator). Signed by Illustrator.
Published by George G. Harrap & Co, London, 1936
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS, ABA, ILAB, LONDON, United KingdomSOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS, ABA, ILAB
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Add to basket12 copper engraved illustrations and 201 decorated initials by Stephen Gooden. No.255 of 525 copies, signed by the artist. Printed on handmade paper by Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press. 8vo., original full vellum binding decorated in gilt with grape and fox devices, lettering in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, i…n the original marbled paper covered slipcase with printed spine label. An extremely good, fresh copy.
