FINE BOOK # 4 Aesopus semper vivus - Peter Bichsel · Fine Books
FINE BOOK # 4 Aesopus semper vivus - Peter Bichsel · Fine Books
FINE BOOK # 4 Aesopus semper vivus - Peter Bichsel · Fine Books
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I L L U S T R A T E D F A B L E B O O K S<br />
ed in 1825 under the title «Hundert neue Fabeln», focus on the author’s entire social and natural<br />
environment. – Bodemann 266.1; Fabula docet 133; Lonchamp 1105; Rümann 328. – Text volume<br />
with minor foxing, the plates very clean.<br />
28 GRANDVILLE. – La Fontaine, (Jean de). Fables. Nouvelle<br />
édition. 2 vols. With frontispiece on China paper in vol. I, a total of 120 plates, and<br />
many vignettes in the text, all engr. in wood by J. J. Grandville. (2) leaves, XVIII, 292<br />
pp.; (2) leaves, 312 pp. Large 8vo. Contemp. olive morocco. Spine with two labels,<br />
gilt. Covers framed by gilt- and blind-tooled ornaments. Edges gilt (joints reinforced).<br />
Paris, Fournier aîné, 1838. CHF 900.– (EUR 600.–)<br />
Second edition of the same year as the first, showing the initial «N» to the life ofAesop (p. XIII)<br />
composed in small squares. – Bodemann 288.2; Fabula docet 56; Vicaire IV, 899f.; Brivois<br />
233. – Ex-libris «E. C. Matthews» on first paste-down and ownership entry in both vols. Some<br />
foxing mainly to first and last leaves of both vols. and partly to white margins throughout.<br />
29 GRANDVILLE. – Florian, (Jean-Pierre-Claris de). Fables<br />
illustrées par J. J. Grandville suivies de Tobie et de Ruth poëmes tirés de l’Ecriture<br />
Sainte et précédées d’une notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de Florian par P.-J. Stahl.<br />
With frontispiece, 79 plates, and numerous vignettes in wood-engraving by J. J.<br />
Grandville. XX, 292 pp. 8vo. 19th-century half calf over five raised bands. Spine gilt<br />
with label. Marbled end-papers (front board somewhat loose).<br />
Paris, (Lacrampe for) J.-J. Dubochet, 1843. CHF 480.– (EUR 320.–)<br />
First edition, second impression (though still showing the last line of page 207 identical to the<br />
first impression, which, according to Brivois, should be different). 1842, four years after his «La<br />
Fontaine», Grandville published his ironic illustrations to the fables of J.-P.-Claris de Florian<br />
(1755–1794). The edition is introduced by P.-J. Stahl (i.e. Pierre-Jules Hetzel) who had published<br />
Grandville’s masterpiece «Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux» in the same<br />
year. – Bodemann 301.2; Fabula docet 141; Vicaire III, 746; Brivois 151f.; Sander 268. – Contemp.<br />
bookplate «John Rayner» on first paste-down. Pencil notes on p. 99 and on last flyleaf.<br />
Plate in front of fable XIII of book V marginally soiled and with restored tear.<br />
30 TENNIEL. – James, Thomas. Aesop’s Fables: A new version,<br />
chiefly from original sources, by the Rev. Thomas James. With figurative frontisp. and<br />
104 illus. by John Tenniel, engr. in wood by Leopold Martin. XXV, 232. 8vo. Red grained<br />
morocco over five raised bands. Spine and all edges gilt. Covers with gilt tooled<br />
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