Arthur Rackham - Aesop's Fables - 1949
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Aesop's Fables, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, is a hardback illustrated edition published by William Heinemann in 1949 in English, with a dust jacket and mixed/multiple condition.
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"Aesop's Fables" illustrated by Arthur Rackham
William Heinemann - 1949 Rackham edition - 224p, 18cmx15cm - condition: in original publisher's binding, with rubbing and soiling to boards and spine, inscriptions to ffep, staining to some page edges and page wrinkling, complete with all plates by Rackham, with rare original fragments of original dustwrapper .
The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them'. Rackham's genius is such that it bridges the two, and carries the didactic fable into the realm of fairy story, and lends to the imaginative world of fairies a tangible and convincing reality" (Fred Gettings, Arthur Rackham, 1976, pp. 83-4).
"Aesop's Fables" illustrated by Arthur Rackham
William Heinemann - 1949 Rackham edition - 224p, 18cmx15cm - condition: in original publisher's binding, with rubbing and soiling to boards and spine, inscriptions to ffep, staining to some page edges and page wrinkling, complete with all plates by Rackham, with rare original fragments of original dustwrapper .
The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them'. Rackham's genius is such that it bridges the two, and carries the didactic fable into the realm of fairy story, and lends to the imaginative world of fairies a tangible and convincing reality" (Fred Gettings, Arthur Rackham, 1976, pp. 83-4).
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Number of Books
1
Subject
Children's books, Illustrated
Book Title
Aesop's Fables
Author/ Illustrator
Arthur Rackham
Condition
Mixed / Multiple
Publication year oldest item
1949
Edition
Illustrated Edition
Language
English
Original language
Yes
Publisher
William Heinemann
Binding/ Material
Hardback
Extras
Dust jacket
Number of pages
0
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