1912 Aesop's Fables

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Slipcase

An edition de luxe of two hundred and fifty copies, of which this is numbered one hundred and seven, published at the same time as the first Folkard edition.

Signed by the publishers to the limitation leaf, to J. H. Brough.

In a custom cloth chemise and custom cloth slipcase, both of which are in a near fine condition. 

The important fables of Aesop.

Illustrated with a tipped-in colour frontispiece, eleven tipped-in colour plates, and numerous line illustrations in text, by Charles Folkard. Collated, complete.

Aesop's Fables is a selection of fables, generally attributed to the Ancient Greek storyteller Aesop, who lived around 620 BCE-564 BCE. The fables are moral tales that guide in religious and secular aspects of life, following adventures of many different creatures.

Folkard created the cartoon character Teddy Tail, who ran in the Daily Mail.

With a preface by Gordon Home. 

Two pages of adverts to the rear.