Aesop. Thomas Bewick's Fables of Aesop and Others, number 16 of 80 copies with the accompanying suite of proofs, introduction by Iain Bain, illustrations printed from the original Bewick woodblocks by R.Hunter Middleton, original calf-backed cloth, extra suite loose as issued, together in original cloth drop-back box, Florin Press, 1980; Fable, translated by Sir Roger l'Estrange, one of 525 copies signed by the artist, copper-engraved title & plates and woodcut initials by Stephen Gooden, spotting, original pictorial vellum, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, spine browned, 1936; another edition, number 291 of 350 copies, wood-engravings by Celia Fiennes, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, dust-jacket (a little spotted & browned, nick to upper edge), Waltham St.Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press, 1926; The Taill Of The Paddok & The Mous, number 58 of 100 copies signed by the artist and printer/binder, colour linocuts, original cloth-backed boards, uncut, Market Drayton, Tern Press, 1986; Aesop's Fable of the Miller, His Son, and Their Ass Retold and Illustrated...by Nick Wonham, one of 160 copies signed by the author/artist, linocuts by Wonham, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, with another rebound copy of the same, Oldham, Incline Press, 2006, all preserved in modern cloth drop-back boxes or folder and/or slip-cases; and 9 others, Aesop, from modern British presses, and a folder of 9 large watercolours of fables by Amanda Scott, v.s. (15)
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