Four Fables from Aesop Illustrated
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Jones, V.S. Vernon
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1980
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This second copy -- #11 -- of this limited edition of 15 is produced on dampened Arches paper and has a green cover. Otherwise I will repeat comments made on the first copy. Now here is a quintessential ephemeral find! Only fifteen copies printed! And we have two of them! There is a line-cut for each of the four fables. TH has a typical floral headpiece with the hare at its center. I presume that the cock standing tall in "The Eagle and the Cocks" is the winner whose arrogance cost him his life. Wittiest of the line-cuts is the bespectacled crow with a book in his claw. The owl above "The Owl and the Birds" is appropriately dark. As the text says, "She sits moping and pondering on the folly of her kind." The binding is beautifully sewn. What a fortunate find!
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The Annis Press, Wellesley College Library
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12877 (Access ID)