Aesop's Fables: A New Translation Illustrated in Colour and Black & White by Arthur Rackham

Edité par Garden City Publishing Co., New York, 1939

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1939 at copyright; early printing in rare pictorial wrapper. Superbly illustrated, decorated, and featuring a thoroughly enjoyable introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Red full-cloth boards, Rackham mounted color plate, gilt spine titles, moderate shelf wear, spine rub. Front boards features color plate of The Hare and the Tortoise surrounded with blind-stamped animals: lion, wolf, stork, crow, rooster, frog, and owl. Deckled pages near fine, clean; no writing. Small antiquarian label inside cover: "Sally Stilson, Madison Heights, Anderson, Indiana". With thirteen richly colored, smooth coated plates by Arthur Rackham and over fifty black and white illustrations, many full-page, in immaculate detail throughout. Bind good; hinges intact. Rare pictorial wrapper moderate edge, spine sunning, discoloration; protected in new clear sleeve. Front panel in deep red w/stylized titles, Rackham's hare and fox illustration; back panel features illustrated classics of the time availabe from Garden City books. Near fine profusely illustrated book of classic moral fables in good original wrapper. Aesop's Fables was first published in 1912 with this imagery by Rackham. Includes two-hundred fables of timeless humor and wisdom. "In Aesop's Fables (1912) Rackham's primary intention was to amuse, but his illustrations for fables of 'The Moon and her Mother' and 'The Gnat and the Lion' suggest the imaginative refinement that he brought to the task. Rackham was often his own model; there are several self-caricatures to be detected in Aesop's Fables. He is the man who catches the flea, the pompous gentleman who scolds the drowning boy, the credulous slave-owner who scrubs the black boy" (Hudson, Derek. Arthur Rackham His Life and Work, p. 94). Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 B.C. The first century A.D. philosopher, Apollonius of Tyana, is recorded as having said about Aesop: ". like those who dine well off the plainest dishes, he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths, and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then, too, he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true, told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events" (Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Book V:14).Latimore and Haskell pp. 38-39. Printed in the United States of America. 224 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.…

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Titre
Aesop's Fables: A New Translation Illustrated in Colour and Black & White by Arthur Rackham
Auteur
Aesop; Jones, V. S. Vernon (Translation); Chesterton, G. K. (Introduction)
Éditeur
Garden City Publishing Co., New York
Année de publication
1939
État de l'article
Very Good
Jaquette
Good
Reliure
Hard Cover
Illustrateur
Rackham, Arthur
Édition
First Edition.

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