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Deluxe illustrated edition. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1931. Hardcover. Blue, cream and gilt boards, b/w line illus by Bennett. Top Edge Gilt, bound-in ribbon marker, untrimmed leading edge, 222p, index. bx141

New York and Boston: Hurd And Houghton / E. P. Dutton, 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Henry Walker Herrick. 12mo, xii, 311 pages, red bevelled publisher's cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, original floral endpapers, all edges gilt. Variant with gilt fox in a circle on covers. This is Samuel Croxall text, unattributed, with a lengthy "Application" at the end of each of the 110 fables here. For example, "The Hunted Beaver" draws comparisons to the Inquisition, and persecution of the Jews - with advice I do not comprehend. Illustrated by watercolorist Henry Walker Herrick

Nevada City, Harold Berliner, Prointer, 1970. Softcover. Good. Limited edition of 975 copies.

Hurd, 1865 New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1865. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Illustrated with 111 engravings from original designs by Herrick . First edition thus. 12mo. green and gilt boards with period yellow end papers, 311 pp. All edges gilt, very ornate binding with animals and decorations all in blind-stamped gilt, very attractive and conditionally near fine. Date on title page matches date of copyright, true first printing thus.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 25 tipped in color plates by Detmold, pages issued unnumbered. This copy has been neatly resewn and recased in the now-rebacked original white cloth which is lettered and decorated in gilt. The hinge portions of the endpapers are neatly replaced with narrow strips of white binder's cloth. 31 cm. Most of the original backstrip, unevenly browned with gilt lettering dulled, has been mounted on the new backstrip. This copy of the book benefits aesthetically from having its darkened backstrip mounted on tan cloth. Corner bumped on front cover. The hinge portions of the unevenly browned endpapers have been neatly replaced with narrow strips of white cloth. 29 cm. Internally otherwise almost as new. No slipcase. Copy No. 334 of an edition of 750 copies, NUMBERED and SIGNED by Detmold.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. Book. Illus. by Detmold, E. J.. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator(s). Limited Edition. Large 4to (26 x 31cm). This edition limted to seven hundred and fifty copies, numbered and signed by the artist of which this is No. 102. Unpaginated. 25 fine tipped-in colour illustrations by Detmold, all with captioned paper guards and all in very good condition. Original cream cloth binding with gilt lettering, and decoration. Binding very good and clean without soiling, light wear only, gilt slightly dulled. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Contents clean and tight, original end papers with scarab beetle motif to the centre, a little surface damage repaired to the edges of the front paste-down, previous owner's neat signature to the front free endpaper. A very good copy of the fine limited edition..

Engraved frontispiece portrait of Ogilby by P. Lombart after P. Lely engraved plate of Aesop among his animals, and eighty-one engraved plates illustrating the fables by Cleyn most of which were cut by Hollar. The work first appeared in folio in 1665, with 82 fables each with its own full-page illustration (save one plate representing two fables) printed on a separate leaf, with accompanying letterpress text. Hollar was responsible for 57 of the illustrations & the print depicting Aesop. Period debossed full calf with handsome recasing in a fine morocco. Engraved frontispiece portrait cut and mounted, with small paper repair in the lower right corner of the image. Some browning and occasional foxing; a few short marginal tears or paper flaws. Title in red and black, Portrait of Aesop, Dedication to Charles II. 211, [1, blank] 82 [engraved plates] pages. Large folio (10.5 x 16.125 inches; 410 x 265 mm.).