Signed by Rackham with an original ink drawing laid in
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Heading: (Rackham, Arthur, illustrator)
Author: Aesop
Title: Aesop's Fables [with] original ink drawing by Arthur Rackham
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Doubleday, Page & Co.
Date Published: 1912
Description:
Author: Aesop
Title: Aesop's Fables [with] original ink drawing by Arthur Rackham
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Doubleday, Page & Co.
Date Published: 1912
Description:
Translated by V.S. Jones. Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. Illustrated with 13 tipped-in color plates by Arthur Rackham; printed guards. Includes a laid-in original ink drawing by Rackham. (4to) original cloth-backed boards, stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. No. 412 of 1450 copies. First Rackham Edition.
Signed by Rackham at the limitation statement. Original ink drawing is a preliminary or variant for the illustration on p. 72 in the fable The Fox and the Lion. The drawing is accompanied by an auction receipt dated 12 December 2017. It had been one of four ink drawings sold at Sothebys. Latimore & Haskell, p.39. Bookplate of Kathleen Alice Cuthbert.
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Spine sunned somewhat, light foxing to cloth, lower front corner slightly bumped; minor toning to endpapers; hints of foxing in margin of drawing; about near fine overall.
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Signed by Rackham with an original ink drawing laid in
Estimate $2,000 - $3,000
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