Author: Aesop; Capt. Edric Vredenburg [ed.]
Title: Aesop&Apos;S Fables
Description: London , Raphael Tuck and Sons Ltd , 1914. Hardback. A charmingly illustrated collection of Aesop's Fables, with coloured plates. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with pictorial boards.  Undated, dated from a copy held at the British Library.Decorated with a coloured frontispiece, eleven coloured plates, and many black and white illustrations by Edwin Noble. Collated, complete. A delightfully illustrated selection of Aesop's Fables, including beloved stories such as 'The Hare and the Tortoise' and 'The Fox and the Crow&apos. Edited by Capt. Edric Vredenburg. With two leaves of publisher's advertisements to the rear.From the library of Nicolas McDowall, who spent his life running The Old Stile Press, a private press based in Herefordshire that worked with dozens of artists and contemporary writers such as Ted Hughes, John Elwyn, Peter Reddick and Kevin Crossley-Holland.  In the original quarter cloth binding, with pictorial boards. Externally, very smart, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. A few faint spots to the front board. Bookplate of one Nicolas McDowall to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with a few scattered spots to the first and last few leaves. Very Good . Ill.: Edwin Noble. Very Good .

Keywords: Aesop's Fables Short Stories Fables Illustrated Short Stories Edwin Noble


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