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

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118 Dittrich, Simon. 10 Farbradierungen zu den Fabeln von La Fontaine.
Suite of 10 colour etchings, each numbered and signed by the artist. Large folio.
Loose sheets as issued in printed wrappers. In orig. cloth box with label on front cover.
Braunschweig, Galerie Schmücking, 1976. CHF 2’000.– (EUR 1’330.–)
One of 100 signed and numbered trade copies of a total edition of 120. The work includes 9 fable
motifs and a portrait of La Fontaine. In the graphic work of Simon Dittrich (b. 1940), human
and animal creatures are combined in a phantastic and absurd panopticum of life. – Not in Bodemann
or Fabula docet. – Good copy.
119 DITTRICH. – Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. Ausgewählte Fabeln.
With 5 orig. full-page etchings (4 signed, one unsigned on front cover) by Simon
Dittrich. 21, (3) pp. (double leaves). Small folio. Orig. silk with inlaid orig. etching on
front cover and gilt-lettered spine. In transparent dust-jacket and orig. card slipcase
(bound by Helmuth Halbach).
Neu-Isenburg, Trajanus Press for Edition Tiessen, 1977. CHF 800.– (EUR 530.–)
«Vierter Druck der Edition Tiessen». One of 200 num. copies on Vélin d’Arches, of a total edition
of 240. Hand-set in original Janson Antiqua. Etchings printed by Max Dunkes, Munich.
Selection of 27 fables in the original version by G. E. Lessing. The German artist Simon Dittrich
(b. 1940) created further fable illustrations in 1976 («Fabeln von La Fontaine») and 1978
(8 colour etchings for G. E. Lessing’s fables). The Frankfurt Trajanus Press was founded by the
typographer G. de Beauclair in 1951. – Bodemann 542.1; Fabula docet 162. – Mint copy.
120 Eichenberg, Fritz. Endangered Species and Other Fables with a
Twist. Title in red and black. With 55 drawings and 26 woodcuts by the artist. 128 pp.
4to. Orig. blind-tooled cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Orange endpapers. In illus. d.-j.
Owings Mills, Stemmer House, 1979. CHF 70.– (EUR 47.–)
First edition. Hardcover version. With an introduction by William Packard. Fritz Eichenberg
(1901–1990) exiled to the United States in 1933, where he became one of the major graphic artists
and illustrators. World politics and the relation between humans and nature are the subject
of the present modern fables. – Bodemann 553.1. – Good copy.
121 Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. Fabeln. Drey Bücher. Nebst Abhandlungen
mit dieser Dichtungsart verwandten Inhalts. Title in red and black. Headlines
in blue, green, and red. 216, (4) pp. 8vo. Orig. blue cloth with spine label.
Hamburg, Maximilian-Gesellschaft, 1979. CHF 40.– (EUR 27.–)
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