AESOP; STEPHEN GOODEN [ILLUSTRATOR],.
Aesop's Fables.
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted”: George G. Harrap Edition of Aesop's Fables; signed by illustrator Stephen Gooden
London: George G. Harrap and Company Ltd, 1936.
$850.00
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Item Number: RRB-148561
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Signed limited edition of Aesop's Fables. Royal octavo, bound in full vellum with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt ruling and detailing to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, vignette title-page, illustrated with engraved plates and decorations. Boldly signed by illustrator Stephen Gooden on the colophon page at the rear. One of 525 numbered copies, this is number 304. In fine condition. Translated by famous and influential translator Sir Roger L'estrange. Illustrated by Stephen Gooden. Housed in a custom cloth over vellum slipcase.
Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media. The fables originally belonged to the oral tradition and were not collected for some three centuries after Aesop's death. By that time, a variety of other stories, jokes and proverbs were being ascribed to him, although some of that material was from sources earlier than him or came from beyond the Greek cultural sphere.
Aesop's Fables.
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