Detmold Edward Julius Illus (3 results)

First Folio Society Edition. Very good copy in the original colour-illustrated cloth boards, with spine gilt-blocked and now foxed. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Accompanying original slip-case very good, if slightly edgeworn and dust-dulled. Physical description; xvi, 152 pages, 23 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm. Notes; This edition was first published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1909. The 1909 edition was drawn chiefly from the third edition of Sir Roger L'Estrange's translation (1699). Subjects; Aesop, fables. Fables, Greek. Detmold, Edward Julius, illustrations. Fables, translations into English. Folk tales, Greek. Illustrated books, children's. 1 Kg. …

4to., Second Impression thus, with coloured frontispiece and 11 coloured plates; pictorial white cloth gilt, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.

Signed limited edition, number 85 of 100 copies signed by the illustrator. An impressive example from the golden age of book illustration, this collection includes the tales of Ali Baba, Sindbad the Sailor, and Aladdin. Quarto. Colour frontispiece, 11 colour plates, all tipped in and with captioned tissue guards, as issued. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered and pictorially decorated with Arabian scenes in gilt, rear cover with genie lamp motif in blind, top edge gilt, others uncut. Gift inscription dated 1929, and more recent ownership inscription, on front free endpaper. Spot of wear to spine foot, else beautifully preserved: near-fine.…