AESOP'S FABLES

First edition with these illustrations. Trade issue. Publisher's original light blue cloth with a wraparound illustration and titles in gilt, black, green and beige to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with 12 full page colour plates and numerous black and white drawings throughout the text by Charles Folkard. Tissue guard to the frontispiece. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities a little rubbed and a few tiny nicks at the tips of the slightly faded spine. The contents, with a little spotting to the text block edge, endpapers, and occasionally to the margins, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps.

An attractive copy of the scarce first Charles Folkard illustrated edition. The first edition was issued simultaneously in a trade issue (as here) and an edition deluxe (limited to 250 copies, signed by the publishers Adam and Charles Black).