28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 175
 

175

Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Aesop's Fables. A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones. With an...

Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). Aesop's Fables. A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones. With an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton, London: William Heinemann, 1912. 4to, original white cloth, spine and front board lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 13 tipped-in colour plates with tissue-guards, spine darkened, finger-soiling to covers, endpapers spotted, mounts offset onto adjacent text-leaves as often (qty: 1) First edition thus, number 743 of 1450 copies signed by the illustrator.

Sold for £400
Estimated at £250 - £350


 

Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 28th Jul, 2021

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