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
red on title and 10 orig. full-page woodcuts by Wassilij Masjutin. 39, (1) pp. Small 4to.
Orig. half calf with gilt stamped title on spine and front board (inlaid calf label). Outer
and lower margins uncut (corners slightly bumped, book block starting after p. 4).
(Berlin, Gebr. Feyl, 1938). CHF 200.– (EUR 130.–)
First printing of these woodcuts. One of 1000 numbered copies on Zerkall hand-made paper. –
Bodemann 439.1. – Margins minimally browned. A good copy in all.
65 ROUSSEAU. – Florian, (Jean-Pierre-Claris de). Quelques
fables. With 6 colour illus. on plates (one promotional without reference to the text)
and 46 vignettes in black and white by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 65, (3) pp. Small 4to.
Loose quires in orig. limp wrappers with transparent dust-jacket.
Paris, Laboratoires Bouillet/Roger Dacosta, 1938. CHF 60.– (EUR 40.–)
Humoristically illustrated selection of fables by the French fabulist Florian (1755–1794), published
for promotional purpose by the Paris medical house Laboratoires Bouillet. Not for trade.
The illustrator’s name Jean-Jacques Rousseau seems to be a pseudonym. – Bodemann 438.1.
Not in Monod. – Top edge somewhat foxed. Few leaves marginally creased.
66 HAINARD. – Roman de Renart Aventures de Maitre Renart et
d’Ysengrin son compère d’après le texte etabli par Paulin Paris. With 11 full-page
colour woodcuts and 40 woodcut vignettes by Robert Hainard. 211, (1) pp., 2 leaves.
Folio. Loose quires as published in printed card wrapper and orig. half vellum chemise
with spine title. In orig. card slipcase.
(Lausanne), André Gonin, (1946). CHF 2’800.– (EUR 1’870.–)
«Collection André Gonin», 7. One of 125 copies of the regular edition on Vélin du Marais, of a
total edition of 150. Signed in the colophon by the artist and the publisher. The Geneva artist
Robert Hainard (1906–1999) dealt with animal depiction all his life. The present woodcuts can
be considered as his masterpiece.As in the Japanese manner of woodblock printing, in this work
more than 120 woodblocks were necessary to achieve this most differentiated polychromy. –
Not in Monod. – Perfect copy.
67 KREDEL. – Aesop’s Fables . With 10 colour plates and many
drawings in the text by Fritz Kredel. XV, 234, (6) pp. 8vo. Illus. original cloth with illus.
dust-jacket. Illus. end-papers (dust-jacket marginally worn).
(New York), Grosset & Dunlap, (1947). CHF 40.– (EUR 27.–)
«Illustrated Junior Library». First edition. 153 fables, translated and adapted by Alan Doe. His
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