Sir Roger Lestrange Trans (13 results)

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 364 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrations throughout. Rough-cut pages. Minor foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges and free endpapers. Light cracking, creasing and staining to gutters but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft splitting, fraying and crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With applications, morals, etc. by Rev. G. F. Townsend and L. Valentine. No date, circa 1930's. Small Thick Octavo. xxxii, 351pp. Illustrated. Publisher's limp brown leather covers, gilt titles. Minor rubbing to spine. A.E.G. School prize bookplate tipped-in. Otherwise contents clean and bright. Overall a 'Very Good' copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. Cloth/dust jacket Quarto. navy papered boards, gilt lttering, dust jacket clipped, 146 pp, dj torn Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1923; blue cloth covered boards with gold spine titles; wear and discoloration around edges; corners are rounded; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 256 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. R. de la Neziere; Stephen Gooden (illustrator). 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 binding, 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. book.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Percy J. Billinghurst (illustrator). First edition. Two scarce editions of Aesop's fables, including the very scarce first edition of the Percy J. Billinghurst illustrated edition, and a late twentieth century edition also featuring his illustrations. Two volumes of the fables of Aesop, both featuring the illustrations of Percy J. Billinghurst.The first of these two volumes is the very scarce first edition of this charming late nineteenth century edition of Aesop's fables, with this edition from the English version of English pamphleteer Sir Roger L'Estrange, featuring an introduction from Kenneth Grahame - author of 'The Wind of the Willows' - and illustrated by Percy J. Billinghurst.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and with full page illustrations throughout - included in the pagination - from illustrator and bookplate designer Percy J. Billinghurst.The second volume is the scarce 1977 first edition of George Beal's retelling of the fables, which also features Billinghurst's illustrations throughout.Aesop's Fables are a collection of brief moral tales attributed to a storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece around the 6th century BCE. These tales typically feature animals as characters who embody human traits and behaviours, teaching practical life lessons through their interactions. Classic fables like "The Tortoise and the Hare," "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," and "The Ant and the Grasshopper" use simple narratives to convey enduring wisdom about virtues such as perseverance, honesty, and hard work.Housed in a cloth slip case In the publisher's original pictorial cloth bindings, housed in cloth slip case. Externally, excellent, with bump to head of 1899 volume. Internally, firmly bound. Pages of 1977 volume exceptionally clean and bright, with the odd spot to the 1899 volume. Slip case in excellent condition. Near Fine. book.

Leather. Condition: Fine. None stated (illustrator). A beautifully bound copy of the fables of Aesop, adorned with charming illustrations throughout, bound by Eric Sweet in crushed quarter morocco and housed in a lovely cloth chemise and uniform slipcase. An illustrated edition. Bound 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 lettering artist and typographer for advertising agencies, later becoming the head of Birmingham School of Printing. Sweet's bindings are unique and striking, reflecting the topics of the volumes in distinctive style.Bound in modern crushed quarter morocco with marbled paper to the boards, endpapers and blanks renewed, with a cloth slipcase and chemise.Illustrated with one hundred and ten monochrome vignettes throughout. Collated, complete.A charming illustrated collection of fables credited to Aesop, a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. This edition has been translated by Samuel Croxall and Sir Roger L'Estrange. Bound in modern crushed quarter morocco with marbled paper to the boards, endpapers and blanks renewed, with a cloth slipcase and chemise. Externally lovely. The slip and chemise are also lovely. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound with bright and clean pages with only the odd spot to the front and rear couple of pages. Fine. book.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. None stated (illustrator). A strikingly bound copy of Aesop's fables, with charming illustrations throughout, bound by Eric Sweet with moire cloth panels and a cloth chemise and slipcase. A new edition. Part of the 'Chandos Classics' series.Bound 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.Illustrated with one hundred and ten monochrome illustrations, including a frontispiece, and an illustrated title page.A charming collection of fables credited to Aesop, a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. This edition has been translated by Samuel Croxall and Sir Roger L'Estrange, and contains George Fyler Townsend's and L. Valentine's 'new applications, morals, etc'.Bound in cloth with moire cloth panels, endpapers and blanks renewed, with a cloth chemise and slipcase. Bound in cloth with moire cloth panels, endpapers and blanks renewed, with a cloth chemise and slipcase. Externally lovely. The chemise is lovely, and the slip excellent with light damp staining to the head. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with the odd minor spot only. Light owner's stamp to the title page. Fine. book.

Leatherbound. Condition: Very good. Tenth Edition, corrected. 282, [2] p. 20 cm. Full leather with blank impressing. Worn hinges and corners, small chip in spine tail. Bookplate for Robert Salusbury Cotton of Cumbermere in the County of Chester on front pastedown with corresponding signature on rear pastedown. Ink notations on front pastedown and title page. No front free endpaper. Pages browned. In these satirical Visions, Quevedo (1580-1645) appears to showcase his antipathy for mankind. The first dream is "The Bedeviled Catchpole" in which a tax collector is possessed by an evil spirit, which results in the evil spirit begging to be exorcised, since the tax collector is the more evil of the two. In Death and her Empire, Quevedo provides more examples of humanity's dishonest ways. The Last Judgment provides a glimpse of that grim event. The translator, Roger L'Estrange (1616-1704) was a pamphleteer, author and staunch defender of Royalist claims.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Contemporary full leather, neatly rebacked. Bookplate of Thomas Wyndham of Yately, Hampshire. Engraved frontis portrait. [6],264. One front blank leaf, two rear blank leaves. Illustrated capitals. Some foxing, minor marginal damping. One leaf edge professionally repaired. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of Sir Roger L'Estrange and Laurence Echard's English language translation of the comedies of celebrated Roman playwright Terence. The first edition of this English language translation of the works of the Roman playwright Publius Terentius Afer.Translated from the original Latin into English by Sir Roger L'Estrange and Laurence Echard.Featuring Terence's comedies 'The Fair Andrian', 'The Eunuch', 'The Self-Tormenter', 'The Brothers', 'The Tricks of Phormio', and 'The Mother-In-Law'.Rebacked, with endpapers renewed.ESTC R30657With errata following page XXIX, as called for.These six comedies are based upon Greek originals by either Menander or Apollodorus of Carystus. Rebacked, in a full calf binding, retaining the original calf boards. Endpapers renewed. Light rubbing to board perimeters, otherwise externally excellent. Foxing to text block fore edge. Front hinge a touch strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Minor worming to margin head of title page to page 26, not affecting text. Pages age toned due to paper type, with significant spotting to first and final leaves, and the odd further spot throughout, most concentrated to page perimeters. Closed tear to leaf E1, affecting text. Very Good. book.

Alcuin Press (illustrator). small 4to. full brown leather, the front cover gilt with a rich design of crowned A's, with ornamental center and corners, gilt leather turn-ins, all edges gilt, crimson moire satin endpapers. (12) pages. Limited to 50 numbered copies printed by the Alcuin Press on handmade paper. Small dampstain on outer margin of first few pages. Spine lightly faded. Slipcase slightly cracked. Else a lovely copy in a lovely signed binding by A. Genova, Venezia (stamped on rear board). With 24 full-size reproductions of the Gheeraerts etchings of 1567. A stunning edition of Aesop's Fables. full brown leather, the front cover gilt with a rich design of crowned A's, with ornamental center and corners, gilt leather turn-ins, all edges gilt, crimson moire satin endpapers.

Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. Large 8vo., cream-backed brown publisher's boards lettered in gilt to spine; housed in the rather scarce printed dust jacket; with 11 wood engravings by Celia M. Fiennes; pp. [viii], iii-v, [i]; 94, [vi]; almost entirely unopened, spine tips lightly bumped; previous bookseller sticker to lower paste-down, else a near-fine example, the jacket good to very good only, but seldom found at all, lightly spotted, browned along spine and to folds, chipped to extremities with some closed tears along spine. Scarce thus. Provenance: bookplate of Alma Ruth Levenson to the front paste-down. Limited to just 350 copies, this no. 268. Text reprinted from the 1692 edition of the Fables.L'Estrange originally published his version of the fables in 1692, and the translation is now thought to be one of the most popular. His edition of Aesop was commissioned by a group of booksellers and appeared two years after Locke first recommended Aesop as a first reading book for children. Muir writes it was "the best and largest collection of fables in English, and he had children especially in mind when making his compilation" The DNB notes of L'Estrange's Aesop that it was "an assemblage of fables and facetiae from a variety of sources, ancient and modern, the second volume being wholly unAesopian. The trenchant reflections added to the individual fables possess a strong political animus and were to draw severe criticism from the later whig fabulist Samuel Croxall; but all L'Estrange's translations have some degree of political colouring". The simplistic yet highly effective wood engravings are by Celia M. Fiennes, a direct descendant of the 17th-century travel writer Celia Fiennes. She was an accomplished printmaker and illustrator - in the same year as this publication, she produced twelve wood engravings for the Cresset Press edition of Matthew Stevenson's 1661 work The Twelve Moneths.