Fables.

CALDER, Alexander (illus.); AESOP.

Published by Paris & New York: Harrison, Minton, Balch and Company, 1931

About this Item

First edition, limited issue, number XXVII of 50 copies, with a tipped-in original published drawing signed by the artist. The drawing in this copy is from the Cock and Diamond fable. The text of the present edition is based on Roger L'Estrange's translation of Aesop's Fables (1692). Harrison of Paris was founded by publisher and heiress Barbara Harrison Wescott (1904-1977) and art patron and curator Monroe Wheeler (1899-1988) in 1930. The illustrator, Alexander Calder, came from a long line of sculptors, and first took up printmaking after moving to Paris in 1926, where he befriended Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Leger, Joan Miró, and Piet Mondrian. Quarto. Illustrated throughout with line drawings by Alexander Calder on Guarro's Spanish pure rag paper with coloured silk threads. Original paper-covered boards, front cover lettered in black, edges untrimmed, endleaves uncut. With the original glassine dust jacket, and the original paper knife loosely inserted. Housed in the original red card chemise and slipcase, with printed label to front cover. A few small marks to boards; glassine jacket a little chipped, tape repair to rear jacket; slipcase a little toned: a near-fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 183084

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fables.
• Publisher: Paris & New York: Harrison, Minton, Balch and Company, 1931
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)