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Aesop's Fables
(Wordsworth ClassicsWordsworth Editions Ltd, 1912)
Several years ago I found in London a very inexpensive (£.90) paperback reproduced in 1995 from material in the Rackham/Jones edition of 1912. Now I have hit the other end of the financial spectrum in this country. I ...
Aesop's Fables
(Wordsworth ClassicsWordsworth Editions Ltd, 1912)
Surprisingly, this paperback that costs only $1.44 includes apparently all the Jones texts and all the black-and-white Rackham illustrations. What a bargain! A suite like MSA's silhouettes (130-31) here occurs together ...
Aesop's Fables
(Pan Books, 1912)
I had never seen this much-reproduced book in paperback before. The edition is noteworthy for its wide pages: 224 pages of print are reduced to 153. AI at the back, but no T of C at the front. A spot-check reveals some ...
Aesop's Fables
(Gramercy Books: Outlet Book Company: Random House, 1912)
Publishing is strange territory. Avenel is no longer the publisher, but the ultimate publisher is in Avenel, NJ! This edition is in the line of my 1912/75? rather than my 1912/80? edition, since it does not group the ...
Aesop's Fables
(London: William Heinemann/NY: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1912)
This book has a twofold claim to fame. First, it is a first edition of Rackham's Aesop's Fables. Thus the colored illustrations are thus very well done, and protected by slipsheets with the name of the illustration at ...
Aesop's Fables
(London: William Heinemann/NY: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1912)
T of C and list of illustrations. Both the colored and black-and-white illustrations are very well done. The colored illustrations come alive in this early edition, e.g., The Crab and His Mother, The Blackamoor, 2P, Venus ...