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“THE MOST CONSPICUOUSLY DECORA- TIVE VOLUME OF THAT KIND” 1. The Fables Of Esope PARKER, Agnes Miller [illus.] Gregynog Press, 1931. The Gregynog Aesop. Folio. One of 250 copies, this apparently is- sued out of series with the limitation num- ber clipped from the colophon. Bound at Gregynog in Welsh natural sheepskin with black lettering on the spine and printed on Barcham Green hand made paper in Bembo type. Thirty-seven illustrations engraved on wood by Agnes Miller Parker. A very near fine copy, uncommonly clean and fresh. The binding, with its soft sheepskin so prone to wear, shows only the lightest rubbing to the spine. [42713] £7,500 An exceptionally nice example of one of the finest books produced by one of the finest presses of the Private Press movement. The illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker are con- sidered by Colin Franklin to rank this book as “the most conspicuously decorative volume of that kind”, the binding is smooth, appropriately natu- ralistic and exceptionally well preserved, and the type, hand-set by Richard Jones, is generous and exacting. Writing in his The Private Presses, Colin Franklin concluded that “the entire work of Gregynog, print- ing and binding, produced a better thing that any- one else had attempted”. Jones (pp. 30-1).
2. The Fables of Aesop DETMOLD, E.J.
Hodder and Stoughton, [1909]. First edition illustrated by Detmold. 4to. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering and gilt illustration to the spine and upper cover. Pictorial endpapers. Twenty-three wonderful mounted colour plates in a gilt border and protected by captioned tissue guards. A near fine copy with a tiny bump to the lower joint and front hinge just starting. [44668] £750
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