Aesop's fables.
Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1912
Materials
Place of origin
New York
Collection
Greenway, Devon
NT 3170217
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxx, 224, 12 l. of plates :. col. front., ill. ;. 21 cm. Provenance: Inscription in ink on fly-leaf: `With very best wishes from Wilfrid'. Loose at front is one-leaf advertisement for an Arthur Rackham exhibiton in London, 1912, printed in red. Pasted at bottom of inside front cover is ticket of W. E. Harrison, bookseller, Ipswich. Binding: Publisher's case, covered in green cloth, with gold lettering and decorations on spine and front.
Makers and roles
Aesop (c.620 - 564 BCE) Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) Vernon Stanley Vernon Jones Arthur Rackham (Lewisham 1867 – Limpsfield 1939)