Item #23634 THOMAS BEWICK & THE FABLES OF AESOP. With an original leaf from the first edition (1818) of "The Fables of Aesop" and a new impression from one of Bewick" original wood engravings. John W. Borden, Janet S. Krueger.
THOMAS BEWICK & THE FABLES OF AESOP. With an original leaf from the first edition (1818) of "The Fables of Aesop" and a new impression from one of Bewick" original wood engravings.

THOMAS BEWICK & THE FABLES OF AESOP. With an original leaf from the first edition (1818) of "The Fables of Aesop" and a new impression from one of Bewick" original wood engravings.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto, original brown boards with paper spine label; 58 pp., illustrated. Like new. Item #23634

The original leaf is page 325/326 and contains Bewick's wood engraving and the full text of the fable "The Sun and theWind." The restrike impression is from Bewick's engraving for "The Boys and the Frogs." Edition of 518 copies printed at the Greenwood Press.

Price: $65.00