�sop's Fables A new translation by V.S. Vernon Jones. With an introduction by G.K. Chesterton and illustrations by Arthur Rackham.

RACKHAM, Arthur

Published by William Heinemann, London, 1912

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illustrator]. AESOP, [contributor]. CHESTERTON, G.K., [contributor]. VERNON JONES, V.S., [translator]. �sop'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, 1912. Full Description: [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. AESOP. �sop'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, 1912. First trade edition with an original drawing by Rackham on the half-title. Octavo (8 x 6 inches; 200 x 150 mm). xxix, [1, blank], 223, [1] pp. Thirteen color plates (including frontispiece), with descriptive tissue guards, and fifty-three drawings in black and white (nineteen full-page). Hal-title includes a half-page original drawing by Rackham of a crow and a smaller bird surrounded by a square frame and signed "AR" in the lower left corner. Below the drawing is an inscription signed "Arthur Rackham" and dated 1912. Original green buckram pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge stained green. Pictorial endpapers. Minimal foxing to endpapers. Some rubbing Along edges and top and bottom of spine. Binding slightly skewed. Front inner hinge starting but firm. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell. Overall a very good copy. Latimore and Haskell, pp. 38-39. HBS 68875. $2,500.

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�sop's Fables A new translation by V.S. Vernon Jones. With an introduction by G.K. Chesterton and illustrations by Arthur Rackham.

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William Heinemann, London

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1912

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RACKHAM, Arthur; AESOP|VERNON JONES, V.S.|CHESTERTON, G.K.

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1st Edition

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