The Cults of the Greek States ( 4 Volumes ---- 1, 3, 4, and 5 ) by Farnell, Lewis Richard - 2010

Bewick, Thomas. Bewick's Select Fables of Aesop and Others. In Three Parts. I. Fables Extracted from Dodsley"s. II. Fables with Reflections in Prose and Verse. III. Fables in Verse. To which are prefixed The Life of Aesop, and An Essay Upon Fable by Oliver Goldsmith. Faithfully reprinted from the Rare Newcastle Edition published by T. Saint in 1784. London, Bickers and Son. 1871. 4to. Red morroco. Gilt decoration with black inlays. 5 raised bands, gilt decoration with black inlays, black and gilt title piece. Silk tricolour headbands. All edges gilt. Gilt inner dentils, marbled end papers. Frontis portrait, half title, title, preface vii-xxix, Life of Aesop xxx -xxxvi, Essay Upon Fable xxxvii -xl. Pp312. 142 fables most with at least one illustration by Bewick, within a red printed border. Skillful reback retaining original spine, inner hinges strengthened. All pages and illustrations in excellent order throughout. The skillful beauty of Bewick illustrations with the fables from nature including… Read More

Portland: Amber Lotus Publishing, 2008. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Printing of the First Edition. Essentially fine, with only slightest shelf rubbing to bottom edge, in jacket with insignificant traces of wear to extremities. An apparently unread copy. Signed and dated 2008, on the title page...

London: Folio Society 2011. (Hardcover boxed set) 1396pp. Fine, no dust jacket. Three volumes green cloth illustrated with black and gilt in fine green slipcase. Color illustrated frontispieces, illustrations. "This is one of the great books of Britain. Every nation needs its own collection of folk tales, and this is the fullest and the most authoritative we have. To open it anywhere is to sink a shaft into the memory of a people and all that they know, from sheep-shit to sputniks, from wicked uncles to clever tailors, from a Professor of Signs to a secret agent in Wales" - from the Preface by Philip Pullman. Illustrations by Hannah Firmin, Peter Firmin & Clare Melinsky. Preface by Philip Pullman. Locale: Britain. (Folklore, Folk Tales, Folklore, Stories).

Los Angeles, Pig's Whisker Music, 1979, large format trade paperback (8.5" x 11"), 48 pp, First Edition, Very Good condition, Boldly signed and dated (1980 London) by both Robin and Janet Williamson on the title page and inscribed "to Gerald Green with every good wish". Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight foxing to covers, slight corner bumps, slight warp. One of the founding members of The Incredible String Band and leader of The Merry Band, who set this piece to music on their album A Glint at the Kindling (1979), presents an epic poem "based on five broad stages of ancient British history" and the "emotion that the ancestral figures of the green islands have woken in me, since I first learned of them as a boy." Ten pages of the book are made up of the poem and its accompanying drawings while the following 31 pages contain the historical and literary notes and references that appear in the text. There are also two black-&-white photographs of the authors. A two-page Bibliography is… Read More

Cape Town SA, South African Museum, 1992, stapled paperback, 27 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, Very Good condition in brown card covers. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, small scuffs to covers, some evidence of previous damp near spine. An examination of Bushmen arrows as part of an intricate system of beliefs and rituals, not simply as agents of death. Illustrated throughout with six drawn figures. References appended. ISBN 9780868131269

Bewick, Thomas. Bewick's Select Fables of Aesop and Others. In Three Parts. I. Fables Extracted from Dodsley"s. II. Fables with Reflections in Prose and Verse. III. Fables in Verse. To which are prefixed The Life of Aesop, and An Essay Upon Fable by Oliver Goldsmith. Faithfully reprinted from the Rare Newcastle Edition published by T. Saint in 1784. London, Bickers and Son. 1871. 4to. Red morroco. Gilt decoration with black inlays. 5 raised bands, gilt decoration with black inlays, black and gilt title piece. Silk tricolour headbands. All edges gilt. Gilt inner dentils, marbled end papers. Frontis portrait, half title, title, preface vii-xxix, Life of Aesop xxx -xxxvi, Essay Upon Fable xxxvii -xl. Pp312. 142 fables most with at least one illustration by Bewick, within a red printed border. Skillful reback retaining original spine, inner hinges strengthened. All pages and illustrations in excellent order throughout. The skillful beauty of Bewick illustrations with the fables from nature including… Read More

Portland: Amber Lotus Publishing, 2008. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Printing of the First Edition. Essentially fine, with only slightest shelf rubbing to bottom edge, in jacket with insignificant traces of wear to extremities. An apparently unread copy. Signed and dated 2008, on the title page...

London: Folio Society 2011. (Hardcover boxed set) 1396pp. Fine, no dust jacket. Three volumes green cloth illustrated with black and gilt in fine green slipcase. Color illustrated frontispieces, illustrations. "This is one of the great books of Britain. Every nation needs its own collection of folk tales, and this is the fullest and the most authoritative we have. To open it anywhere is to sink a shaft into the memory of a people and all that they know, from sheep-shit to sputniks, from wicked uncles to clever tailors, from a Professor of Signs to a secret agent in Wales" - from the Preface by Philip Pullman. Illustrations by Hannah Firmin, Peter Firmin & Clare Melinsky. Preface by Philip Pullman. Locale: Britain. (Folklore, Folk Tales, Folklore, Stories).

Los Angeles, Pig's Whisker Music, 1979, large format trade paperback (8.5" x 11"), 48 pp, First Edition, Very Good condition, Boldly signed and dated (1980 London) by both Robin and Janet Williamson on the title page and inscribed "to Gerald Green with every good wish". Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight foxing to covers, slight corner bumps, slight warp. One of the founding members of The Incredible String Band and leader of The Merry Band, who set this piece to music on their album A Glint at the Kindling (1979), presents an epic poem "based on five broad stages of ancient British history" and the "emotion that the ancestral figures of the green islands have woken in me, since I first learned of them as a boy." Ten pages of the book are made up of the poem and its accompanying drawings while the following 31 pages contain the historical and literary notes and references that appear in the text. There are also two black-&-white photographs of the authors. A two-page Bibliography is… Read More

Cape Town SA, South African Museum, 1992, stapled paperback, 27 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, Very Good condition in brown card covers. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, small scuffs to covers, some evidence of previous damp near spine. An examination of Bushmen arrows as part of an intricate system of beliefs and rituals, not simply as agents of death. Illustrated throughout with six drawn figures. References appended. ISBN 9780868131269