Kardinal Alessandro Farnese - Das Farnese Stundenbuch - 1546-2001
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Signed; Arthur Rackham (ill) - Aesop's Fables (limited edition no 1054 signed by Arthur Rackham) - 1912
Nr. 83783543
Signed; Arthur Rackham (ill) - Aesop's Fables (limited edition no 1054 signed by Arthur Rackham) - 1912
"Aesop's Fables" illustrated by Arthur Rackham and translated by V.S. Vernon Jones, with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton - William Heinemann, London - 1912 limited signed UK edition, no 1054 signed by illustrator Arthur Rackham - 25cmx18cm (much larger format as regular trade edition of Aesop's Fables) - condition: very good, in original cream boards with minor marks, bookplate to ffep, complete with 13 mounted color plates and 53 in-text line cuts, many full-page.
Rackham illustrates such classic morality tales as "The Hare and the Tortoise," "The Fox and the Grapes," "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse," "The Fir-tree and the Bramble" and "The Shipwrecked Man and the Sea." "The Aesop illustrations contain several self-caricatures of Rackham, including the man who catches the flea" (Dalby, 78). Latimore & Haskell, 38-39. Riall, 111.
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