Author: Aesop; Blanche Winder
Title: Aesop&Apos;S Fables
Description: London, Ward, Lock and Co. Limited, 1924. Cloth. A charming copy of this collection of Aesop's Fables retold, with bright illustrations throughout. Illustrated with twenty-four colour plates. Collated complete. A collection of the fables of Aesop, a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables characterized by anthropomorphic animal characters. This collection includes: Crying "Wolf", The Lion and The Mouse, The Goose Who Laid Golden Eggs, The Crow and The Snake, and The Fox Who Had Lost His Tail, amongst others. Retold by Blanche Winder, a British author of children's books. Illustrated by Harry Rountree, a New Zealand-born illustrator noted for his prolific output in England around the turn of the twentieth century. Dated from the British Library. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, sound with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine with light chipping to the board edges. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light age toning to the endpapers. Good . Ill.: Harry Rountree. Good .
Keywords: Aesop Fables Winder Rountree Fables Harry Rountree
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Title: Aesop&Apos;S Fables
Description: London, Ward, Lock and Co. Limited, 1924. Cloth. A charming copy of this collection of Aesop's Fables retold, with bright illustrations throughout. Illustrated with twenty-four colour plates. Collated complete. A collection of the fables of Aesop, a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables characterized by anthropomorphic animal characters. This collection includes: Crying "Wolf", The Lion and The Mouse, The Goose Who Laid Golden Eggs, The Crow and The Snake, and The Fox Who Had Lost His Tail, amongst others. Retold by Blanche Winder, a British author of children's books. Illustrated by Harry Rountree, a New Zealand-born illustrator noted for his prolific output in England around the turn of the twentieth century. Dated from the British Library. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, sound with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine with light chipping to the board edges. The odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light age toning to the endpapers. Good . Ill.: Harry Rountree. Good .
Keywords: Aesop Fables Winder Rountree Fables Harry Rountree
Price: GBP 44.00 = appr. US$ 62.83 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 956T44
- Book number: 956T44
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