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Lot 43
Sale 5657 - Books and Manuscripts
Sep 23, 2021
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Live / Philadelphia
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500
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$378
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Lot Description
[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Aesop's Fables
London: William Heineman/New York: Doubleday Page & Co., 1912. First and limited American edition, #1,248/1,450 numbered copies, signed by Rackham. 4to. xxix, (i), 223, (1) pp. Illustrated with mounted color frontispiece with captioned tissue guard, 12 mounted color plates, each with captioned tissue guards, and numerous black and white plates, by Rackham. Original three-quarter brown cloth, over paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt, extremities and spine ends worn, boards toned annd soiled; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; ownership signature at head of front free endpaper; scattered minor spotting to text. Riall p. 111; Latimore & Haskell pp. 38-39