Aesop's Fables. A new translation by V.S. Vernon Jones, with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton and illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann; NY: Doubleday, Page, 1912. First trade edition. 8vo. xxix, 223, (1) pp. Illustrated, color plates and black-and-white plates, line drawings, and vignettes. Lattimore, pp. 38-39. Polished tan calf (rubbed, darkened in places, especially a:long the spine), marbled endpapers, leather spine labels, gilt turn-ins and edges, original cloth bound in at rear, gilt-stamped illustration of the "fox and the grapes" on the upper cover, by Zaehnsdorf. Both joints a little cracked near spine ends, boards a little bowed but a nice copy. (Item ID: 46417)
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