1971 Aesop's Fables

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First UK Teissig edition. Very scarce. Illustrated throughout with colour images. A collection of the fables attributed to Aesop, a Greek fabulist and storyteller noted for his tales characterized by anthropomorphic animal characters. Many of the tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Each volume contains two of these classic tales. This collection contains titles such as: The Dog and the Shadow, The Boy Who Cried "Wolf", and The Goose with the Golden Eggs, amongst others. Retold and illustrated by Karel Teissig, a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic designer who became one of the most important figures of Czechoslovak poster design.