Aesop. Aesop's Fables, one of 1450 copies signed by the artist, 13 tipped-in colour plates by Arthur Rackham with captioned tissue guards, black & white illustrations, light foxing, later half green morocco, spine gilt with animal motifs, t.e.g, others uncut, spine a little faded, 1912; Fables d'Ésope, one of 430 copies signed by the artist, 13 tipped-in colour plates by Arthur Rackham with captioned tissue guards, black & white illustrations, some browning, old ink stamp to verso of title, original decorated white cloth, gilt, t.e.g, others uncut, lightly soiled, spine browned, Paris, 1913; The Fables, 23 tipped-in colour plates by Edward J.Detmold with captioned tissue guards, pictorial endpapers spotted, original pictorial cloth, gilt, a good copy preserved in modern cloth slip-case, 1909; Fables, one of 250 copies signed by the publishers, 12 tipped-in colour plates by Charles Folkard with captioned tissue guards, illustrations, original pictorial cloth, t.e.g., others uncut, slightly rubbed, spine a little browned, 1912; Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, translated by Rev. G.F.Townsend, plates & illustrations by Harrison Weir, some colour, some foxing, original pictorial red cloth blocked in white and gold designed by Jessie M.King, spine very slightly faded, 1902; The History and Fables of Aesop translated and printed by William Caxton 1484, one of 500 facsimile reprints, illustrations, original cloth, Ilkley, Scolar Press, 1976, all preserved in modern cloth folders with slip-cases or drop-back boxes; and a quantity of others, 20th century illustrated editions of Aesop, some rebound, 4to & 8vo (c.75)
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