Twenty Four Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists

Author(s): L'Estrange, Sir Roger

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Very Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Ernest Benn
Publication Year:	1928
Book ID:	001722
Catalogue(s):	Beautiful Books ◇ Myths, Legends, Folklore and Fairy Tales

ii+52pp, with 24 illustrations after the etching of Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder. Blue cloth boards with gilt rulings and decoration (faded around spine, very slightly rounded at corners). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring some mild foxing on endpapers. One of the earliest books from the Alcuin Press, a small private press founded by Herbert Finberg in 1928 which produced fine books in small editions using hand-set types on hand-made paper

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