AESOP; L'Estrange, Sir Roger (translator).
The Fables of Aesop.
The Fables of Aesop.
Stock Code 112751
Waltham Saint Lawrence, The Golden Cockerel Press, 1926
'The work of the engravers of Golden Cockerel books gives the Press its greatest distinction and made a whole period of woodcut revival' (Franklin).
Limited edition; number 250 of 350 copies; large 8vo (260 x 165 mm); bookplate to front free endpaper verso, illustrated wood-engraved silhouettes by Celia M. Fiennes; green morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, upper panel with cockerel design onlaid in red, within quadruple gilt frame, spine lettered in gilt, top-edge gilt, others uncut, slight offsetting to margins of endpapers, minor abrasion to rear panel, otherwise fine;[2], v, [1], 94, [2]pp.
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