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Auction archive: Lot number 315

RACKHAM, ARTHUR, illustrator. AESOP. Aesop's Fables. A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton. London: Heinemann, New York: Doubleday 1912. 4to, rebound in white vellum over boards with gilt lettering on upper co...

Auction 05.12.1991
5 Dec 1991
Estimate
US$3,000 - US$4,000
Price realised:
US$8,800
Auction archive: Lot number 315

RACKHAM, ARTHUR, illustrator. AESOP. Aesop's Fables. A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton. London: Heinemann, New York: Doubleday 1912. 4to, rebound in white vellum over boards with gilt lettering on upper co...

Auction 05.12.1991
5 Dec 1991
Estimate
US$3,000 - US$4,000
Price realised:
US$8,800
Beschreibung:

RACKHAM, ARTHUR, illustrator. AESOP. Aesop's Fables. A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton. London: Heinemann, New York: Doubleday 1912. 4to, rebound in white vellum over boards with gilt lettering on upper cover and spine, t.e.g., others uncut, by ZAEHNSDORF. LIMITED EDITION, no. 1164 of 1450 copies signed by the illustrator, this copy with a PEN-AND-INK AND WATERCOLOR DRAWING OF A BESPECTACLED CROW READING ALOUD TO A LION, OWL, FOX, BEAR, GOOSE, MOUSE, ROBIN AND FROG BENEATH AN ANIMATED TREE, SIGNED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM AND DATED 1932; illustrated. (Maxwell)

Auction archive: Lot number 315
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 1991
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

RACKHAM, ARTHUR, illustrator. AESOP. Aesop's Fables. A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton. London: Heinemann, New York: Doubleday 1912. 4to, rebound in white vellum over boards with gilt lettering on upper cover and spine, t.e.g., others uncut, by ZAEHNSDORF. LIMITED EDITION, no. 1164 of 1450 copies signed by the illustrator, this copy with a PEN-AND-INK AND WATERCOLOR DRAWING OF A BESPECTACLED CROW READING ALOUD TO A LION, OWL, FOX, BEAR, GOOSE, MOUSE, ROBIN AND FROG BENEATH AN ANIMATED TREE, SIGNED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM AND DATED 1932; illustrated. (Maxwell)

Auction archive: Lot number 315
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 1991
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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