Three Hundred Aesop's Fables by Aesop (George Fyler Townsend, trans.) - 1867

Paris: Maison de la Bonne Presse 1895. (Hardcover) 324, 324pp. Very good. Volumes 1 and 2 (consisting of the first 40 issues) bound together in red half leather. The covers of each volume are bound-in. Illustrated throughout (many of which are tinted in various pastel colors) including numerous full-page illustrations. A dampstain on the outer edge of the front cover. Histoires, voyages, sciences, vies des saints, geographie, beaux-arts, jeux, rebus. Text in French Language. (Juvenile).

Macmillan and Co, Limited. London.,1906. FIRST EDITION. Twenty line drawings by Millar. Finely bound in recent full red morocco, raised bands, gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. Top edge gilt. Lovely copy.:

NY: McKay, 1956. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Rus Anderson (dj). First Edition, no additional printings; red cloth, vg (spine ends bumped and worn, head lightly faded; 505 written in ink on ffep; endpapers toning; small stain mark on ffep and half-title page) in fair dj (price-clipped; heavily chipped and torn). 179 pp.

Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., London, New York 1877. Square 8vo, pp. 54; color illustrations by Crane engraved by Edmund Evans; original terra cotta-backed pictorial boards , all edges rubbed; interior fine.Red cloth spine with red card paper covered boards, having black and white illustrative titles and decoration. One of the earliest Crane-Evans collaborations, originally published in London, 1877. (Together with : The baby's bouquet.) No Date. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Internally in wonderful condition with no marks or browning. Engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans. Full of wonderful illustrations in addition to the sheet music to a host of children's favourite nursery rhymes. 10 Full page colour illustrations and intricate border designs that are truly beautiful. Walter Crane was an artist, designer, socialist, interior decorator and leading member of the Arts & Craft movement. edge wear. Illustrated in colour with plates… Read More

Warne. London. 1886. FIRST U. K EDITION. 8vo. (8.4 x 6 inches). Illustrated with 26 drawings by Birch, many full page. Finely leather bound, for Sotheran's of Sackville Street, in half deep red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe of London. Spine with raised bands. Compartments lettered and decorated in gilt. Red cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. A few faint marks to the cloth boards and minor rubbing to the extremities but overall a very good copy of this famous tale.

Frederick Warne & Co, New York, 1911. HBNODJ , 1911, 1st edition, latter 2nd Issue, with only 1 date on copyright page, Original Dark-Green or Grey Pictorial embossed Boards with raised Bands, Paste-On Label of Squirrel in red Jacket ( shaped Onlay ) & White Titles, Cover minor Rub & Wear & Scuff , 27 color plates, minor Soil & rub,Backstrip & front Cover lettered in White above & below Onlaid illustration with Publishers name in rectangle at Bottom, VG+/VG, AS-IS, NODJ, 85 pages, Interior Light Fox & Wear O/W tight & Clean. First Edition. Hard Cover.

NY: McKay, 1956. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Rus Anderson (dj). First Edition, no additional printings; red cloth, vg (spine ends bumped and worn, head lightly faded; 505 written in ink on ffep; endpapers toning; small stain mark on ffep and half-title page) in fair dj (price-clipped; heavily chipped and torn). 179 pp.

New York: Saml Gabriel Sons, 1939 12 linenette books all Near Fine or better, original color printed box is well worn with corner splits and a few pieces missing from sides of box bottom. Each book is printed in full color. The set includes: Little Black Sambo, Gingerbread Man, Henny Penny, Three Billy Goats Gruff, Jack and the Beanstalk, Mother Hubbard's Dog, Dick Whittington, Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, Three Bears, Three Little Kittens and Peter Rabbit. . Original Wraps. Near Fine. Illus. by R A Burley. 12mo.

An attractive, didactic children's book very probably written in 1844 by the Swiss (Geneva) wife of the "co-author", a Protestant Pasteur -Pasteur de l'église réformée evangelique- telling the story of a boat trip up the Rhône river, from Avignon to Geneva. viii + 203 pp. The unusual cover page is composed of a series of vignettes.Free postal delivery worldwide.

Hardcover. First Edition. BAL 16384. Frontispiece "In the Belfry" and 24 full-page b/w plates as well as numerous text vignettes by Pyle. 16, ads. 8vo. Original half leather and green cloth binding (advertised on p. 16 of ads at $2.00. Gilt and red lettered green pictorial cloth. Spine/backing replaced. VG+/NF with wear to tips. Cloth has 1/4" split at lower rear tip.