Aesop's Fables. From the Library of Charlie Watts. This item is unavailable.Aesop's Fables. From the Library of Charlie Watts

1912 1st edition 1st impression Limited Edition De Luxe No 239 of 250 copies, signed by the publisher. Cream pictorial cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 12 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards, and in-text b/w drawings, by Charles Folkard. Condition: Very Good. Some rubbing to cover picture. Brown stain to top corner of front board. Scattered foxing. Inscription to ffep. Front inner hinge split, rear hinge starting, but binding holding firm. Plates clean and bright. One of the tissue guards is partially detached but could be easily re-stuck. All plates present. Size: 10x8in / 25x20cm. 209pp. plus publisher's book list. Weight: 1.6kg. Provenance: From the library of Charlie Watts. Exeter May 2026 Auction. ?Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood are proud and delighted to have been entrusted with the sale of the Collection of the Late Charlie and Shirley Watts. The drummer of the greatest Rock and Roll band and the love of his life, the talented horse breeder and sculptress Shirley chose Devonshire as their retreat - and it was at Halsdon House, near the village of Dolton that they lived out their lives together in rural happiness? Watts was an incorrigible bibliophile and Christie?s have already held two remarkable sales of some of his most desirable tomes - famously successful auctions of Literature and Jazz, which they described as ?a fitting tribute to the exquisite taste of the legendary Rolling Stones drummer, Charlie Watts..…