Aesop's Fables (Deluxe Illustrated Edition, Limited & Signed by Arthur Rackham)

Rare limited deluxe edition, signed by Rackham and numbered 266/1450 to limitation page. 13 coloured plates mounted on thick brown paper with captioned tissue guards. 19 full-page B/W illustrations and numerous B/W illustrated vignettes throughout text.

First edition thus. London: William Heinemann & Doubleday, Page, & Co., 1912. 4to. Original publisher's cloth. Gilt titling and illustrations to cover and spine. pp. xxix, 224. Very good. Covers marked and somewhat soiled. Spine darkened with a bump near the middle. Binding sound: square and tight. Contents very good. Some markings and toning throughout, most prominent to preliminaries and pages succeeding plate pages. Plates fine, bright and bold, excellently preserved.

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