Search Results: the fables of aesop selected and by jacobs joseph

Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske & Co. G. nd. Pictorial gray binding with rectangle edged in red of wolf looking up a tree. Edge wear, pin holes at ft joint, soiling on . cover & ft endpaper. .

The Macmillan Co., 1945. First Thus-early Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Richard Heighway. Publisher's red designer cloth. A beautiful edition with the advantage of having the history of each fable told by a noted folklorist. A clean, unmarked, tight copy.

London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1894. Decorative Cloth. Very Good +. Beautiful edition illustrated with many B&W Full-Page and In-text Drawings. Frontis illus. a Stork and a Fox. Decorated title page. Beautiful dark Green cloth cover with bright Gilt Crow on a branch looking down at a Fox. Bright Gilt lettering, on front and spine, and Gilt Vignette of Stork & Fox on spine. All page edges gilt. Dark green endpapers. XXV/25 preliminary pages, main text 220 pages + Index and Adverts. 7 1/2" tall, 480g. From the library of the late Professor Charles Thomas, Cornish Historian & Author, his illustrated Bookplate is on endpaper. Small tear to tissue guard. No inscriptions. Cover protected in clear contact plastic which has preserved it in excellent condition.

222pp, reprint, light external wear to bright dustjacket, business stamp on flyleaf otherwise unmarked.

****LIMITED EDITION (1/100) in LARGE PAPER****
The Fables of Aesop, Selected, Told New and Their History Traced by Joseph Jacobs. London: Macmillan & Co., 1894. illustrated by Richard Heighway; this scarce, limited large-paper edition was published in a limitation of 100 copies; bound in 3/4 blue calf over marbled boards. [2], xxv, [1], 222 pp including index.