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Aesop's Fables
Aesop; V. S. Vernon Jones [translator]; G. K. Chesterton
1919
William Heinemann : London
8" by 6"
xxix, 224pp.
SUMMARY
A scarce neat collection of Aesop's fables, illustrated throughout by Arthur Rackham.
Illustrated,Original Binding,Publishers' Original Binding,Scarce
Overall Condition: Good
This book weighs 0.75 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
Scarce work.
Fourth impression, 1919. Originally published 1912.
Illustrated throughout with frontispiece and twelve colour plates with tissue guards and many black and white images. Collated complete.
Aesop's fables, a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE.
Translated by V. S. Vernon Jones, an American translator.
With an introduction by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, an English writer, philosopher, Christian apologist, a literary and art critic.
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, an English book illustrator who is recognised as one of the leading figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration.
CONDITION
In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light bumping and rubbing to the extremities. Cloth lifting slightly to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot or tide mark.
Overall Condition: Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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