Rackham arthur illus aesop (8 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good-. P/b; vg-; some corners of pages creased, nothing terrible. Small 4to; 158pp; brown spine; 4to 11" - 13" tall. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (illustratore).

Condizione: Good. 8vo. softcover. 158pp. index. Good, cover creased, light crease to first few pages.

Octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering & decorationto front board & spine, blind motif to rear board, illus eps, frontispiece, xxix + 224pp, illus, coloured plates have captioned tissue guards, G+ (one plate (The Lion, Jupiter and the Elephant) has come loose and been reattatched in the wrong place with ugly brown packing tape, 'The Quack Frog' plate is loose but present with sellotape residue staining to gutter, 'The Trees and the Axe' plate lacks tissue guard, 5cm closed tear to lower front hinge, moderate fraying to spine extrems & board corners & around tear, faint foxing to spine, moderately heavy foxing to page edges, occasional foxing to some pages, child's scribble in pencil to two pages, owner's inscription to prelim, tape repair to prelims).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 224 pages, a very good hardback, publisher's original light blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine as well as a flying mystical creature. The front cover has a gilt design but there's also four small stains. The latter is the only fault. Otherwise, the book is VG being tightly bound and square. (On the first blank page, there's a neat Xmas gift inscription dated 1950).…

Condizione: Good. Limited Edition [1042/1450]. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Cover heavily marked; spine darkened. Sporadic marking and foxing; some discolouration to margins. Occasional staining (not impinging). Browning to pages, sometimes heavy. Some off-setting. Previous owner's inscription (dated 1917) to fep verso. Teg - remaining edges untrimmed. 300mm x 240mm (12" x 9"). xxix, 224pp. 13 mounted plates with captioned tissue-guards; additional illustrations in b/w. Signed on the limitation page by Rackham. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. White/gilt decorated hardback cloth cover.…

A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones. With an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. xxix, 224 pp. With frontispiece and twelve color tipped-in plates by Arthur Rackham, and text illustrations in black and white. Folio, publisher's gilt white cloth in publisher's plain paper wrapper (neatly titled in ms. on spine by a former owner) First edition. Slight bump to one corner and the slightest of soiling to the white cloth; light foxing to endsheets; some shallow chipping and use to the wrapper; a very attractive copy.…

First Rackham edition, signed limited issue, and first edition of this translation; number 1,191 of 1,450 copies signed by the artist. "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.' Rackham's genius is such that it bridges the two, and carries the didactic fable into the realm of fairy story, and lends to the imaginative world of fairies a tangible and convincing reality" (Gettings, pp. 83-84). Riall, p. 111. Fred Gettings, Arthur Rackham, 1976. Quarto (277 x 229 mm). With 13 tipped in colour plates as issued, captioned tissue guards and 5 black and white illustrations. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in reddish-brown morocco, spine lettered and decorated gilt, raised bands, pictorial title block to front board gilt, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, dark green endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A few leaves slightly browned and the occasional minor blemish. An excellent copy finely bound.…

Signed limited edition, number 379 of 1,450 copies signed by the artist. It is also the first edition of this translation by Vernon Jones. "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.' Rackham's genius is such that it bridges the two, and carries the didactic fable into the realm of fairy story, and lends to the imaginative world of fairies a tangible and convincing reality" (Gettings, pp. 83-84). Riall, p. 111. Fred Gettings, Arthur Rackham, 1976. Quarto. Frontispiece and 12 plates, all in colour and tipped to brown art paper, with tissue guards captioned in brown, as issued, 19 full-page black and white illustrations, line drawings in the text. Original white cloth, spine and front cover lettered and pictorially stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Bookplate of Cecily Mary Severne (1889-1981). Spine toned, light soiling to cloth, endpapers browned, occasional foxing. A very good copy.…