1887 Some of Aesop's Fables with Modern Instances

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Rebound, Signed Binding, With Slipcase

This edition was first published in 1883.

With vignette colour illustrations throughout by British artist and illustrator Randolph Caldecott, a celebrated children's illustrator.

Aesop's Fables are a collection of brief moral tales attributed to a storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece around the 6th century BCE. These tales typically feature animals as characters who embody human traits and behaviours, teaching practical life lessons through their interactions.

Classic fables like "The Tortoise and the Hare," "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," and "The Ant and the Grasshopper" use simple narratives to convey enduring wisdom about virtues such as perseverance, honesty, and hard work. 

The leaves of this volume have been washed.

Bound by Eric Sweet in 2002 in a morocco backed, marbled paper covered boards by Eric Sweet, with endpapers renewed, and housed in a cloth covered clamshell.

Eric Sweet was a keen collector of private press and fables. He studied at the Brighton College of Art, before moving to London to work as a lettering artist and typographer for advertising agencies, later becoming the head of Birmingham School of Printing. Sweet's bindings are unique and striking, reflecting the topics of the volumes in distinctive style.