Aesop’s Fables: Illustrated by Charles Folkard
by Aesop
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
-
Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Very good. Bookplate for the English author and editor of this series Gordon Home. Half titles, gilt top edge. 12 colour illustrations by Charles Folkard. Cover lightly rubbed and marked. Spine a little sunned. Scattered light foxing to endpapers. All over a very nice copy. Foreword by Gordon Home
Synopsis
Aesop, known only for the genre of fables ascribed to him, was a slave in the mid-sixth century BC in Greece. He is assumed to have written many of these curious moral parables, and they have been added to and translated into many languages since they were first collected.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Ari Dictum (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1558
- Title
- Aesop’s Fables
- Author
- Aesop
- Illustrator
- Charles Folkard
- Format/Binding
- Pictorial cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Adam & Charles Black
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1912
- Pages
- 209
- Size
- 8VO
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Ari Dictum
About the Seller
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...