Aesop James Thomas (39 results)
Language: English
Published by Franklin Library, 1982
- Hardcover
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.Possum Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. 8vo, quarter green morocco, green cloth-covered boards, gilt lettering and decoration, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Grandville (illustrator).
Aesop's fables (The Franklin Library)
Aesop.; James, Thomas; Townsend, George Tyler; Grandville (illus)
Language: English
Published by Franklin Library, 1982
- Hardcover
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Published by Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1873
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover. Brown cloth over boards with black and gilt stamping to front cover and spine. Title page dated 1873. 145 pages. In fair condition. Covers have quite a bit of uneven and speckled fading. Lettering on front cover and spine is slightly difficult to read. Cloth has been chipped toward foot of…spine, with a little over the size of a dime missing. Chipping at head and foot of spine also chipped, fraying cloth. Boards slightly exposed at corners. Rear gutter is cracked through, but covers remain attached and there are no loose pages. Some chipping along fore edge at front of text block. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Some foxing throughout. Illustrations throughout. Overall, a fair copy in good reading condition.
Published by Porter & Coates, 1885
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Bound in publisher's cloth. Black decoration and gilt lettering. Hardcover. xviii, [21]-224, 16 pages : with more than fifty illustrations, designed by John Tenniel. 20 cm. Added illustrated title. Internal binding loosening, but still holding. Introduction dated January, 1848.
Published by J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1873
- Hardcover
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerxx, 148 pp. Added illustrated title page; more than one hundred illustrations designed by Tenniel and Wolf. 12mo, publisher's blue cloth stamped in gold and black. 1878 pencil gift inscription; cloth lightly worn at extremities, but tight and sound; contents fine.
Published by Porter & Coates, Philadelphia, 1848
- Hardcover
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star seller224 pp. With more than fifty illustrations, designed by John Tenniel. 12mo, publisher' cloth decorated in gold and black. A couple of short marginal tears and a few pages numerated in ink; 3" break just to the surface of the paper of the front (inner) hinge; light wear to cloth.
Aesop Fables [A Limited Edition, Franklin Press] [The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers]
Aesop; Thomas James and George Tyler Townsend [trans.]; Charles H. Bennett [illust.]
Published by Franklin Press, Franklin Center, PA, 1984
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Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, CanadaCARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Gilt full leather hardcover. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers. Ribbon marker smooth and unfrayed. Blindstamp to first blank endpaper. Otherwise clean, tight, bright, and completely unmarked -- a sound and handsome copy, appears unread. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by John Murray, London, 1911
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Gift inscription. Covers have light rubbing. Tenniel; Wolf (illustrator).
Published by Collins & Brother, New York, 1848
- Hardcover
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star seller224 pp. With more than Fifty Illustrations, designed by John Tenniel. 12mo, publisher's cloth. Occasional spotting to text; gold lettering on spine quite dull; tight and sound.
More imagesAesop's Fables
Aesop; chiefly from original sources, by the Rev. Thomas James, M.A., with more than one hundred and fifty illustrations designed by John Tenniel
Language: English
Published by G. P. Punam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, New York and London, 1900
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Circa 1900. Quarter bound with gilt decorated buckram and patterned cloth. extremities rubbed and worn. Light foxing to pages. A tidy, clean copy. From the "Knickerbocker Nuggets" series - states on the facing title page that 33 uniform works are now ready. John Tennial (illustrator).
Published by The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA, 1984
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. 12mo. Limited edition. Genuine leather, gilt decoration to boards and spine. A.E.G. Ribbon marker. Blue moire endpapers. xxiv, 150 pp. Nine full-page B&W illustrations. Includes Notes from the Editors pamphlet, blue paper wrappers, stapled binding, 23 pp. Bennett, Charles H….; King, Kevin (illustrator).
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by John Murray, London, 1852
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHalf-Leather. Condition: Very Good. xx 145pp, half calf, marbled boards, some wear with minor abrasions to leather, more than 100 text engravings, front inner hinge cracked, armorial bookplate (James Wiseman) on front pastedown, small 8vo (11x17cm).
More imagesAesop Fables (The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers)
Aesop; Translators-Thomas James, George Tyler Townsend; Illustrator-Charles H. Bennett
Language: English
Published by The Franklin Library, 1984
Seller: Antique Mall Books, Smyrna, GA, U.S.A.Antique Mall Books
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Add to basketLeatherbound. Condition: Like New. Limited Edition. LIKE NEW! Limited Edition - Unread. Leatherbound. xxiv, 150 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. . . . . . . . . Part of Franklin Library's The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers. Franklin Library is known for their craftsmanship and collector appeal. These books featu…re genuine leather bindings, 22-karat gold stamped designs, raised hubbed spines, silk moire endpapers, and sewn (not glued) signatures for durability. The use of archival-quality acid-neutral paper and gold-gilded page edges ensures both aesthetic beauty and preservation over time.
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by John Murray, London, 1854
- Hardcover
Seller: Peter Foster Books - PBFA, Frome, Somerset, United KingdomPeter Foster Books - PBFA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Bound in the publisher's gilt arsenic cloth, with gilt pictorial imagery to front board and decoraitve spine. The edges are a touch discoloured and gribby; the corners lightly bumped, the joints and spine ends bumped. There are one or two stains and marks to the boards and the gilding is a touch…worn. All edges gilt. Prize bookplate to the front pastedown. Front hinge strained, else binding generally tight. Leaves have the odd mark or instance of spotting. 32pp publisher's advertisements bound to rear; illustrated with Tenniel's vignette drawings throughout. A lovely new edition, bound in the publisher's arsenic binding. John Tenniel (illustrator).
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by The Easton Press, 1980
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. This set is in Fine condition. The front and back covers of each book are both in terrific condition and the gilded page edges show only very minor wear (see pictures). There are no markings, bookplates, or other signs of prior ownership in these books. The set… retails for over $9,000 and would take 8+ years to collect. Now is your chance to buy this complete original set at a substantial discount! Titles included are: Title Author(s) A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defoe A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens Aesop's Fables Aesop Alice's in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Brave New World Aldous Huxley Candide Voltaire Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky David Copperfield Charles Dickens Dialogues of Love and Friendship Plato Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Great Expectations Charles Dickens Grimm's Fairy Tales Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Ivanhoe Walter Scott Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman Little Women Louisa May Alcott Lord Jim Joseph Conrad Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert Medea/Hippolytus/The Bacchae Euripides Moby-Dick or, The Whale Herman Melville Oedipus the King Sophocles Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin Paradise Lost John Milton Poems of Yeats William Butler Yeats Politics & Poetics Aristotle Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Rights of Man Thomas Paine Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Omar Khayyam She Stoops to Conquer Oliver Goldsmith Tales from the Arabian Nights Richard Burton Tales of Mystery and Imagination Edgar Allan Poe The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle The Aeneid Virgil The Alhambra Washington Irving The Analects of Confucius Confucius The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin The Birds and The Frogs Aristophanes The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer The Comedies William Shakespeare The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Confessions of St. Augustine Saint Augustine of Hippo The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio The Descent of Man Charles Darwin The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri The Essays or Counsels Civil & Moral Sir Francis Bacon The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson The Federalist Papers Hamilton, Madison, Jay The Flowers Of Evil Charles Baudelaire The Histories William Shakespeare The History of Early Rome Livy The Iliad Homer The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper The Mill on the Floss George Eliot The Odyssey Homer The Oresteia Aeschylus The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan The Poems of John Donne The Poems of John Keats The Poems of Robert Browning The Portrait of a Lady Henry James The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli The Red and the Black Stendhal The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane The Republic Plato The Return of the Native Thomas Harding The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne The Sea Wolf Jack London The Short Stories of Charles Dickens The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl & Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson The Tales of Guy de Maupassant The Talisman Walter Scott The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas The Tragedies William Shakespeare The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler Three Plays of Henrik Ibsen Henrik Ibsen Tom Jones Henry Fielding Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne Two Plays of Anton Chekhov Two Plays of Moliere Two Plays for Puritans George Bernard Shaw Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe Vanity Fair William Thackeray Walden Henry David Thoreau War and Peace Leo Tolstoy Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë.
More imagesPublished by Collins & Brother [ca. 1848], New York, 1848
- Hardcover
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.Second Story Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Octavo, xv, 148 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in decorated green cloth paneled spine with gilt tooling. Spine green with bright gilt inlay. Mild shelfwear and soiling, minor rubbing to top and bottom of spine with light fraying. Textblock age toned but clean. Front free endpaper loose. Includes over 50 illustra…tions. Shelved above showcase. 1406119. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Kansas Fourth Reader--Studies in Reading ["The Discontented Stonecutter", "The Story of King Midas", "The Stone in the Road", "The story of the Dipper" ; "The Breaking in of Black Beauty" ; "The American Boy." y "The Poor Little Match Girl"]
Searson, J. W. (James William), 1873-1927 ; Martin, George E. (George Ellsworth), 1872- [John Greenleaf Whittier, Mary H Krout, Edward Lear, Helen Hunt Jackson, Aesop, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Lucy Larcom, Arthur Hugh Clough, JD Alexander, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keble, AD Stoddart, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Eudora Bumstead, Samuel Minturn Peck, Marshall Saunders,, frank Dempster Sherman, Jouquin Miller, Anna Sewell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horace Scudder, Alice Cary, Jane Taylor, Lyman Abbott, Bessie Stanley, Thomas Moore, John Howard Payne, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Clement Moore, Alfred Tennyson, Minot Savage, Lydia Coonley Ward, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Defoe, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, etc
Published by State of Kansas, W.R. Smith, State Printer, University Publishing Company, Topeka, Kansas, 1919, 1919
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 314 pages ; OCLC 927145016 (online version); art nouveau design with sunflowers and in green and brown on brown cloth ; no dustjacket ; "Reading with appreciation is a fine art. This volume contains some of the gems of literature which the race has learned to love. Some of the 'old fashione…d selections' and some of the most charming new short classics, are offered as a basis for study and appreciation. The average pupil will study his reading lesson with zest if he is given some definite work to do. In these studies, the brief introduction to each selection is intended to whet the pupil's appetite.The exercises following each study make his study definite and to the point. Helpful notes are added wherever necessary, and additional readings are given. ; Selections include: The American Boy -- The Light That Is Felt -- The Tiger The Brahman, And The Jackal -- A Kind Word -- Little Brown Hands -- The Lame Man And The Blind Man -- The Owl And The Pussy-cat -- September -- The Arab And His Camel -- The Shepherd Boy And The Wolf -- Needless Pain -- Because He Loves Us -- Marjorie's Almanac -- The Brown Thrush -- Truth -- God Bless Our Flag -- The Quails -- The Discontented Stonecutter -- The Cloud -- All Things Beautiful -- Labor -- The Matsuyama Mirror -- Work While You Work -- The Pen -- The Quest -- God Bless The Commonplace -- A Bright Chinese Boy -- The Grapevine Swing -- Beautiful Joe -- Forget-me-not -- October's Bright Blue Weather -- Daisies -- So Much Of Goodness -- The Breaking In Of Black Beauty -- The Children's Hour -- The Magic Mill -- The Corn Song -- Daniel Webster's First Case -- The Day Is Done -- The Image And The Treasure -- Somebody's Mother -- Look For Goodness -- The Code Barbarian -- The Discontented Pendulum -- True Success -- Which Loved Best? -- Hope -- The Story Of King Midas -- T Is The Last Rose Of Summer -- Home, Sweet Home -- The Fight -- A Simple Recipe -- The Angels Song -- A Visit From St, Nicholas -- Ring Out, Wild Bells! -- Beauty In Common Things -- Letters Of Recommendation -- A Song For Flag Day -- The Stone In The Road -- Answer To A Child's Question -- Paul Revere's Ride -- The Dream Of Home -- The Choice Of Hercules -- Thomas Jefferson's Ten Rules -- After The Shipwreck -- The Lost Camel -- The Planting Of The Apple Tree -- We Should Smile -- The Humbug -- Sky-born Music -- The Pebble And The Acorn -- The Tree -- Service -- The Sleeping Beauty -- A Wholesome Tongue -- The Village Blacksmith -- Genuine Heroism -- The Legend Of Indian Corn -- Robert E. Lee -- The City Mouse And The Country Mouse -- Our Birth--The First Roses -- A Little Sermon -- Four-leaf Clover -- Love's Nobility -- A Prayer -- Casabianca -- Be What Thou Seemest -- Thor And The Giants -- The Spider And The Fly -- The Mouse And The Moonbeam -- The Schoolhouse And The Flag -- The Snow-image -- Index Of Authors ; Numerous Biblical references appear in Searson's Studies in Reading (1923), but the movement is toward secular stories with a moral emphasizing social values. This reader, published after World War I, begins with a poem, "The American Boy." It is a dialogue between a father and son about patriotism. According to the author of this reader, the influence of the story "The Poor Little Match Girl" "founded many an orphan home and organized hundreds of societies for relief of the worthy poor," which indicates an emphasis on philanthropy and social work during the era of the Social Gospel.80% of selections taught traditional values."-- Sharon Vincz Andrews ; signature of a youthful Gerald Grout, later a Kansas Ophthalmologist ; GOOD. Book.
More imagesPublished by John Murray, London, 1856
- Hardcover
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Good. A charming, nineteenth-century edition of Aesop's Fables with excellent illustrations by John Tenniel; scarcely seen in its original gilt cloth binding A new edition of Aesop's fables, edited by Thomas James. Bound in the original publisher's cloth binding and illustrated throughout with more then one-hun…dred vignette, in-text illustrations by John Tenniel. The fables were first published in English in 1484, by William Caxton. This edition includes the half title and a fantastic, thirty-two page publisher's advertisement to the rear, as called for. A charming nineteenth-century edition of these wonderful, moral tales. Bound in the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Slight tears and lifting to cloth at head anad tail of spine with additional lighter bumping to joints and extremities. Spine marginally faded. End papers bright and clean, hinges neatly reinforced with archival tape. Internally, firmly bound. Half title and title page both archivally reinforced at gutter. Pages and generally bright and clean, with the odd minor closed tear or handling mark to extremities. The odd spot throughout and very marginal age toning to page extremities. Good. John Tenniel (illustrator). book.
Published by Robert B. Collins no date (19th c.), New York
- Hardcover
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star seller224 pp. With more than Fifty Illustrations designed by John Tenniel. 8vo, publisher's cloth; gilt spine and gilt emblem on front panel; a.e.g. 19th c. ink gift inscription on front pastedown; another old gift inscription in pencil at head of title page; light foxing to text throughout; cloth sunned with light wear.
Published by Collins & Brother, New York, 1870
- Hardcover
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star seller224 pp. Added illustrated title page; more than fifty illustrations designed by John Tenniel. 12mo, publisher's green cloth stamped in gold and black. 1878 ink gift inscription; light use and a few spots to the cloth.
Published by Leavitt & Allen, New York, 1857
- Hardcover
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star seller208 pp. With more than sixty illustrations, designed by John Tenniel. 12mo, publisher's embossed cloth; gilt spine. 1857 pencil gift inscription; cloth a bit sunned; gold on spine dulled; tight and sound.
Published by Appleton, Philadelphia and New York, 1851
- Hardcover
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star seller208 [8, illustrated ads] pp. Added illustrated title page; more than sixty illustrations designed by John Tenniel. 16mo, publisher's gilt cloth. 1850 ink Christmas gift inscription; cloth sunned; tight and sound.
Published by The Franklin Library, 1984
- Hardcover
Seller: Russell Books, Victoria, BC, CanadaRussell Books
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. Fully-bound in leather with gilt decorations; Raised bands and gilt lettering on spine. Silk moire endpapers with matching sewn-in bookmark. All outer edges are gilt.
Aesop's Fables: A New Version Chiefly from Original Sources, with more than one hundred illustrations. (Eugene Field's bookplate.)
Aesop / Rev. Thomas James (trans.) / John Tenniel (illusts.)
Published by John Murray,, 1848
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Harry Alter, Sylva, NC, U.S.A.Harry Alter
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Add to baskethardcover. Condition: fair. John Murray, London, 1848, 8vo., full leather, (xxv,232,12)pp., many illusts., Eugene Field's armorial bookplate. once ornate green gilt leather, a signed Riviere & Son binding, with cloth from original front, back & spine bound in the rear. covers detached, lacks spine, text itself VG $.
More imagesPublished by John Murray, London, 1852
- Hardcover
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Add to basketLeather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. A vibrantly bound example of Thomas James's edition of Aesop's fables, illustrated throughout by celebrated artist John Tenniel. Rev. Thomas James first published his edition of these fables in 1848.Lewis Carroll was so impressed by John Tenniel's animated designs for this edition of the fab…les that he chose the Tenniel to illustrate 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.Illustrated with over one-hundred vignette illustrations from Tenniel.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.With four pages of advertisements to the rear.Rebound by Eric Sweet in quarter morocco, with marbled paper covered boards, and with endpapers renewed. With a chemise from Sweet, which incorporates the publisher's original cloth binding to the front and rear pastedown.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. Rebound in quarter morocco by Eric Sweet, with marbled paper covered boards. Externally, fine. Endpapers renewed. In a cloth covered chemise, with the cloth of the publisher's original binding pasted to the front and rear pastedown. Chemise near fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned, with instances of significant spotting and foxing throughout. Very Good Indeed. John Tenniel (illustrator). book.
More imagesPublished by John Murray, London, 1882
- Hardcover
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Good. A charming collection of four 19th century copies of Aesop's fables, all of which feature the illustrations of John Tenniel. Four volumes of Rev. Thomas James edition of the fables of Aesop, which were first published in this edition in 1848.Each of these volumes is the edition of James, and features illu…strations from John Tenniel and Wolf.Illustrated with over one-hundred vignette illustrations from Tenniel in each volume. Lewis Carroll was so impressed by John Tenniel's animated designs for this edition of the fables that he chose the Tenniel to illustrate 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.Present here are: the 1852 edition of this work; the 1863 edition, being the forty-eighth thousand; the 1868 edition, being the sixty-third thousand, and the 1882 edition, being the seventy-eighth thousand.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.With a thirty-two page catalogue to the rear of the 1852 volume, dated January 1852, and another to the 1868 volume, dated April 1868.Housed in a cloth clamshell case, these four volumes were collected by Eric Sweet, whose bookplate appears to the interior of the clamshell. In the publisher's original cloth bindings and paper wraps, housed in a cloth clamshell. The earliest volume is in paper wraps, with losses of paper to the back strip, and significant rubbing to wraps. Rear hinge of 1863 volume strained, but firmly held. Hinges of 1868 volume strained, but firmly held. Clamshell fine. Internally, 1852 volume strained throughout, with remaining volumes lightly strained. Pages a touch age toned, with instances of light spotting throughout. Good. John Tenniel; Wolf (illustrator). book.
More imagesPublished by John Murray, London, 1848
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Fine. First edition. A vibrantly bound example of the first Thomas James edition of Aesop's fables, illustrated throughout by celebrated artist John Tenniel. The first edition of these fables from Rev. Thomas James.Lewis Carroll was so impressed by John Tenniel's animated designs for this edition of the fables…that he chose the Tenniel to illustrate 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.Illustrated with an engraved title page and over one-hundred vignette illustrations from Tenniel.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.With twelve pages of advertisements to the rear, dated March 1848.The leaves of this volume have been washed. Rebound by Eric Sweet in cloth, with endpapers renewed. With a slip case from Sweet, which incorporates the publisher's original cloth binding.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. Reboud in cloth, with endpapers renewed, housed in a cloth slip case with the publisher's original boards and back strip laid down. Externally, fine. Original boards lightly age toned, with ring mark to front board, and back strip age toned. Slip case in very good condition indeed. Internally, firmly bound. The leaves of this volume have been washed. Pages clean and bright. Fine. John Tenniel (illustrator). book.
Published by London, John Murray, 1856., 1856
- Hardcover
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. "New Edition." Small 8vo. 203 fables. 12 page author's introduction. More than 100 illustrations, designed by John Tenniel. Index. Modern 3/4 gilt stamped tan calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt stamped green morocco label, matching marbled endpapers, glazed edges. Fine. 148 pag…es. No signatures or bookplates. Printed by Bradbury and Evans.
More imagesPublished by Recreasoft, Paris, 2026
- Softcover
- Print on Demand
Seller: Livres Anciens Rares, Paris, FranceLivres Anciens Rares
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: New. Reprint. Language: English. Approximately 148 pages. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1911. A classic English collection of Aesop's fables in a new version, chiefly from the original sources, with illustrations by John Tenniel. The volume brings together two hundred and three famou…s fables and remains of interest for readers, collectors, and students of moral literature and illustrated children's classics. Book images are non-contractual.
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: New. Reprint. Language: English. Approximately 148 pages. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : c1911. A classic English version of Aesop's fables, presented in a handsome illustrated format and chiefly drawn from the original sources. The volume is notable for its association with the Victo…rian literary and artistic tradition, and for the engravings by John Tenniel that have long helped define the visual reception of these timeless moral tales. Book images are non-contractual.
