Aesops Fables by Sir Roger Lestrange (4 results)

Vellum. Condition: Near Fine. Stephen Gooden (illustrator). 4to. Bound in full vellum with gilt borders and accents to the boards and gilt spine lettering. Top edge gilt, other edges deckled, housed in the original card slipcase with the title and edition number on a paper label on the spine. Light wear to the box, book in fine condition. Edition of 525 copies, numbered and signed by Stephen Gooden who did the plates and decorations, this is no. 224. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. London: Everyman's Library Children's Classics Edition, 1992, Asprey Binding. The Everyman Edition rebound for Asprey, with the gilt stamp to the rear board, simple brown morocco leather, with gilt titles to the spine, marbled end papers, gilt page edges and five raised bands to the spine. In the original Asprey box. 336pp. Approximately 8 ¼ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine very good condition. Joints very good condition. Corners very good condition. Boards very good condition plain morocco boards. Page edges very good condition all edges gilt. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition. Paste downs very good condition. End papers very good condition. Title very good condition. Pages very good condition. Binding very good condition. See photos Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1992 Binding: Hardback.

First edition. Small quarto. Royal octavo. 313 pages. Title-page and eleven full-page copper engravings, numerous decorative initials by Stephen Gooden. Full vellum, gilt cover design of fox at centre with clusters of grapes at the corners, gilt rules, raised bands, lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Printed on handmade paper by Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press. The text follows the corrected seventh edition of 1724. This is rightly considered one of Gooden's finest works.One of 525 numbered copies signed by the artist. Covers bowed. Faint off-setting from larger plates onto pages opposite. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Gooden, Stephen (illustrator). Limited Edition. LIMITED EDITION of 533 copies of which this is number 354. Signed in the colophon by the artist, Stephen Gooden. Hand-numbered copy printed on handmade paper. 312, (2) pages. 7.25 x 10.25 x 1.75 inches. 12 copper engravings by Stephen Gooden, including title and tail-piece, and 198 large historiated engraved initials. Original full vellum. Stamped in gold with double fillets, a fox in the center of the upper cover and grapes and vine-leaves in the angles of both covers. Cambridge University Press for George G. Harrap. With engraved title, 11 original full page copper engravings on plates, and many decorative woodcut initials by Stephen Gooden. Gilt-lettered spine and ornate covers with double gilt fillets, grapes on corners and jumping fox in the center of front cover. The slipcase is not the original one from 1936 but was created by a later master bookbinder. Re-impression of the seventh corrected 1724 edition of L'Estrange's (1617-1705) translation. Stephen Gooden's (1892-1955) masterpiece. The animals are rendered with such plasticity in every detail that they seem to jump out of the leaf. - Bodemann 434.1. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed, No inscriptions, no spotting. Gilt titles to spine, gilt rule to boards, with small pictorial decorations to corners and center. Signed by Illustrator(s).