AESOP’S FABLES, ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM
(RACKHAM, Arthur) AESOP. Aesop's Fables. A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones, with an Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. London and New York: William Heinemann and Doubleday, Page, 1912. Octavo, modern three-quarter green morocco gilt, raised bands.
First trade edition of Rackham’s rendition of these classic cautionary tales, with 13 mounted color plates and over 50 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). A signed limited quarto edition of 1450 copies was issued simultaneously. Latimore & Haskell, 38-39. Riall, 111.
Scattered light foxing. Very handsomely bound.