Aesop's Fables. RACKHAM (Arthur). [AESOP]

A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton.

Frontispiece and 12 colour plates mounted on brown art paper with captioned tissue guards and black and white illustrations throughout.

First Limited Signed Edition. Large 4to. [295 x 232 x 31 mm]. xxix, [i], 223, [1] pp. Bound in the publisher's original white cloth, the front cover and spine blocked in gilt, plain endleaves, top edge gilt, the others uncut. (Spine slightly darkened, a few minor marks).
London: William Heinemann. New York: Doubleday Page & Co, 1912.

No.534 of the de luxe edition limted to 1450 copies signed by Rackham, of which 250 were reserved for the United States of America, 200 for Australia and 1000 for Great Britain and Ireland. A very good copy.

Stock no. ebc8041