FINE BOOK # 4 Aesopus semper vivus - Peter Bichsel · Fine Books

A E S O P U S S E M P E R V I V U S
Orig. full vellum with gilt stamped title on spine, untrimmed. In transparent dustjackets
and orig. card slipcase (dust-jackets somewhat worn).
London and New York, (The Windmill Press for) William Heinemann and Random
House, 1931. CHF 600.– (EUR 400.–)
One of 525 numbered copies on hand-made specially toned wove paper, of which 250 were for
sale in Great Britain and Ireland and 250 in the United States of America, signed by the translator
and the illustrator in vol. I. Set in Monotype Garamond. In his striking engravings, the British
artist Stephen Gooden (1892–1955) imitates technique and style of the great 16th- or 17thcentury
engravers in his own way. – Bodemann 426.1. – Mint copy. Plates with tissue guards.
55 MILLER PARKER. – Aesop. The Fables of Esope. Translated
out of Frensshe in to Englysshe by William Caxton. With engr. title illus. and 36 woodengr.
illus. in the text by Agnes Miller Parker, and many wood-engr. initials designed
and engr. by the printer. 146 pp, 1 leaf. Small folio. Orig. full Welsh natural sheepskin,
untrimmed. With black title on spine. Signed by Gregynog Press Bindery (some rubbing
to spine, spine ends, and outer edges, bumping to lower corners).
Newtown/Montgomery, Gregynog Press, 1931. CHF 6’500.– (EUR 4’330.–)
Limited to 250 numbered copies (this one no. 175) on paper made by J. Barcham Green of Maidstone.
Text hand-set in Bembo type by Richard O. Jones and printed by William McCance. Contains
97 fables collected by the «Latin Aesop» Romulus (c. 400 AD), and 17 more Aesopian fables
not transmitted by Romulus, all written in the late medieval English of the literary translator
William Caxton (1422–1491), who, at the same time, was the first printer in England. One
of the best works produced by the Gregynog Press and one of the masterpieces of the Scottish
illustrator Agnes Miller Parker (1895–1980), who worked also for the Limited Editions Club
of New York. – Bodemann 427.1. Not in Fabula docet. – Internally fine.
56 HARWERTH. – Aesop. Ein Kalender für das Jahr 1933. Mit
Fabeln nachAesop und anderen. Printed in red and black. Illus. throughout with wood
engravings by Willi Harwerth. 32 pp. 12mo. Orig. illus. boards.
Offenbach, Gebr. Klingspor, (1932). CHF 40.– (EUR 27.–)
Set in «Wallau» and «Magere Wallau», designed by Rudolf Koch and cut by Klingspor, Offenbach.
Printed on Zerkall paper.
57 ROGERS. – Aesop’s Fables Samuel Croxall’s Translation with
a Bibliographical Note by Victor Scholderer. Printed in red and black. With 48 facsi-
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