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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A E S O P U S S E M P E R V I V U S<br />
Orig. brown cloth with gilt tooled cover illustration by E. J. Detmold. Illus. end-papers<br />
(spine ends somewhat frayed, inner hinges cracking).<br />
London, New York, Toronto, Hodder & Stoughton, (1909). CHF 250.– (EUR 170.–)<br />
First edition of these illustrations. Edward Julius Detmold (1883–1957) was one of the major<br />
English book illustrators in the early 20th century, mainly known for his animal illustrations,<br />
among them Rudyard Kipling’s «Jungle Book». In the present title, the decorative illustrations<br />
in pastel colours are reminiscent of Japanese painting. The black-and-white drawings show<br />
some Art déco elements. – Bodemann 390.1. – A good copy.<br />
35 RACKHAM. – Aesops Fabelbuch. In neuer Bearbeitung von<br />
Stora Max. With 13 colour plates and 39 full-page illus. in black and white by Arthur<br />
Rackham. XVI, 152 pp. 8vo. Orig. red cloth with front title and front vignette.<br />
Munich, Georg W. Dietrich, n. d. (1915). CHF 320.– (EUR 213.–)<br />
«Kleinodien der Weltliteratur», I. First German edition of Arthur Rackham’s (1867–1937)<br />
famous fable illustrations, first published two years before together with the English version by<br />
V. S.Vernon. – Cf. Bodemann 393.1. – Ex-libris on first paste-down. A good to very good copy.<br />
36 JUNGNICKEL. – Fleischer, Victor. Tierfabeln des klassischenAltertums.Ausgewählt<br />
und erzählt. With 24 colour lithographs on plates and 24<br />
vignettes by Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel. 52, (4) pp. Large 8vo. Orig. boards with illus.<br />
front cover (delicate spine with broken outer hinges, waterstain to upper cover).<br />
Vienna, Anton Scholl, (1919). CHF 280.– (EUR 187.–)<br />
First edition.Adaptations of classic fables by theAustrian writer Victor Fleischer (1882–1951),<br />
founder of the Frankfurter Verlags-Anstalt in 1920. L. H. Jungnickel (1881–1965), friend of<br />
Hoffmann and Klimt and collaborator at the «Wiener Werkstätte», created striking expressionistic<br />
interpretations. The physiognomies of his animals are a mirror of the psychological condition<br />
of human beings in a modern world. – Bodemann 399.1; Fabula docet 74 (second ed.<br />
only). – Contemp. ex-libris «Herta and Friedel Binswanger» on first paste-down. Inside clean.<br />
37 GAUL. – (Ramler, Karl Wilhelm). Alte Tier Fabeln. With title<br />
and 66 illus. of which 14 full-page by August Gaul. 106 pp. Small 4to. Orig. boards<br />
with front label. Orig. d.-j. (faded and reinforced in parts; small tears to spine ends).<br />
(Berlin), Paul Cassirer, (1920). CHF 140.– (EUR 93.–)<br />
Selected fables by Ramler, first published in his «Fabellese» (1783). Reissue of the limited edition<br />
published by the Pan Press in 1919. – Bodemann 401.2; Fabula docet 149. – Internally fine.<br />
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