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Title
Fables D'Esope
Traduction Nouvelle
Illustree par Arthur Rackham
[SIGNED Numbered Limited Edition – Original Cloth Binding]
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Author
Arthur Rackham
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Year of Publication
1913
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Publisher
Paris: Hachette et Cie
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Description:
Paris: Hachette et Cie, 1913, SIGNED Numbered Limited Edition.
FABLES D'ESOPE. ARTHUR RACKHAM.
Signed by the famous illustrator Arthur Rackham.
First French edition. Bound in white buckram cloth with pictorial gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others edges untrimmed. 121 numbered pages measuring 11in x 9in.
Very good condition, spine slightly darkened, some tanned to the edge of the title page, front and end papers and pastedowns.
Thirteen colour plates (including frontispiece) mounted on heavy brown art paper. Captions printed in red on facing tissue sheets. 53 black and white drawings throughout the text, 19 full page.
Limited run of only 430 copies signed by the artist, of which 375 are printed on vellum paper. This copy is number 317.
Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates.
Approximately 11 ¾ inches tall.
Condition Report
Externally
- Spine – good condition – darkened, gilt titles and decoration, small split to the base.
- Joints – good condition.
- Corners – good condition – minor rubbing and wear.
- Boards – good condition – gilt decorated to the front board, bubbling and staining to the rear board.
- Page edges – good condition – gilt top edge, others untrimmed.
- See above and photos.
Internally
- Hinges – good condition – sound.
- Paste downs – good condition – tanned, minor foxing.
- Free end papers – good condition – foxed.
- Title – good condition – tanned.
- Pages – good condition – tanned, minor foxing, one of the tissue guards is slightly separating from the text block.
- Binding – good condition.
- See photos.
Publisher: see above.
Publication Date: 1913
Binding: Hardback
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