London: Henry Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton. Pictorial Boards. Fair. Percy Billinghurst. Not dated. Size square octavo, pages not numbered. Pictorial boards with illustration of The Crow and the Pitcher and titles to front cover, plain cloth spine. Condition fair, corners and edges and boards rubbed, hinges gone, rear cover and spine backstrip detached from text block, a couple of pages detached and a few are loose, previous owner's name and gift inscription to front paste-down, marks to end-papers, on rear of title page in pencil previous owner has traced the outline of the illustration on the title page, some spotting to pages. Illustrated by Percy Billinghurst Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Bookseller: Lazarus Books Limited (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 015517
Title: Fables from Aesop
Author: Aesop
Illustrator: Percy Billinghurst
Format/Binding: Pictorial Boards
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Henry Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton
Place of Publication: London
Keywords: FICTION FABLES ILLUSTRATED CHILDRENS CHILDS JUVENILE CAUTIONARY TALES

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Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...