Janet s kruger (2 risultati)

Hardbound. 1st. Quarto, 58 pages. One of 518 copies printed by the Greenwood Press with an original leaf with a woodcut "Aesop and the Impertinent Fellow" 'With an original leaf from the first edition (1818) of The Fables of Aesop and a new impression from one of Bewick's original wood engravings (The Boys and the Frogs). Stamp to pages edges and title page, else Near Fine in somewhat soiled plain dust jacket.…

Hardback. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First edition. A fine first edition of this limited edition celebration of Thomas Bewick's edition of the Fables of Aesop, illustrated with an original leaf. A limited edition, first edition work, with this being one of 518 copies produced.In an unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a frontispiece, eight illustrations, an original leaf and a proof from an original block.The inserted leaf is "The Ploughman and Fortune" and the proof is "The Boys and the Frogs". Collated, complete.This work combines a biographical sketch of Bewick by John W. Borden with a historical study of The Fables of Aesop by Janet S. Krueger. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with plain unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Dust wrapper exceptionally bright, with back strip a touch age toned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine. Thomas Bewick (illustratore). book.…