- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Philip Salmon & Co. Rare Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.Philip Salmon & Co. Rare Books
AbeBooks seller since January 22, 2025
Association member: MBS
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 384.48
Quantity: 1 available
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Four volumes, collectively affording a representation of midcentury pedagogy in printing and book design. Volumes are: 1) Aesop's Fables Selected. Compiled by Fall Elementary Printing Class 1947 (San Jose: Industrial Arts Laboratory Press, San Jose State College, 1947). Frontispiece illustration of The Fox and the Grapes. Bound in quarter russet cloth with red cloth over boards. Light rubs, else very good. 2) Twelve Fables from Aesop (Bristol, UK: West of England College of Art, 1947). Lithographs in both color and black and white throughout. Inscribed by to J. C. Vidgen Jenks, principal of a peer art school. Bound in full green cloth over board. Mild rubs, motes of foxing, spine with pale sunning, else very good. 3) Aesop's Fables (Wimbeldon: King's College School Art Society Press, 1957). One of 300 copies. Color woodcuts throughout with particularly vibrant title page. Spiral-bound in boards. Rubs to extremities, chance foxing to interior, else sturdy and very good. 4) Fables from Aesop (Winchester: Winchester College Printing Society, 1976). One of 400 copies, signed by the collaborators. Woodcuts throughout by Richard Atkinson-Willes. Translation by James Sabben-Clare. Bound in full navy cloth over boards. Stray rubs, else near fine. All books held together in clamshell box.…
Seller Inventory # 2619
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Aesop's Fables. Four editions printed by students
- Author
- Aesop
- Publisher
- 1947, 1947, 1957, 1976
- Publication year
- 1947
- Condition
- Very good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- Variously limited.
Philip Salmon & Co. Rare Books
Boston, MA, U.S.A.
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Successor to Bromer Booksellers, Philip Salmon & Company Rare Books continues to offer the book beautiful in all its forms, including early children's books, toys and games; works by Edward Gorey; illustrated books; fine printing from all eras, with an emphasis on social justice themes; miniature books; and important literary first editions.
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early children's books, toys and games; works by Edward Gorey; illustrated books; fine printing from all eras, with an emphasis on social justice themes; miniature books; and important literary first editionsAssociation member
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Philip Salmon & Company Rare Books
607 Boylston Street
Boston, MA U.S.A. 02116
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Philip Salmon & Company Rare Books, LLC
607 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
USA
617-247-2818
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