Aesop — Aesop&Apos;S Fables

London, J. Coker; G. H. Harrap, 1921-32. Cloth. Two copies of Edwin Noble's boldly illustrated edition of Aesop's fables, one being the first Noble edition, and both featuring Noble's fantastic colour plates and housed in a clamshell box. Two Edwin Noble illustrated editions.A two volumes set. Illustrated by Edwin Noble with a chromolithographic frontispiece, monochrome vignettes and seven chromolithographic plates to '1921', collated, complete. A chromolithographic frontispiece and five chromolithographic plates to '1933&apos. A charming illustrated collection of fables credited to Aesop, a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. Bound in modern cloth with the original covers adhered to the front boards, blanks and endpapers renewed, retaining half titles, and housed in a cloth clamshell box. Bound in modern cloth with the original covers adhered to the front boards, blanks and endpapers renewed, retaining half titles, and housed in a cloth clamshell box. Externally lovely with only slight creasing to the adhered illustration to the front board of '1932&apos. Internally, firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with only the odd minor handling mark and spot. The clamshell is lovely. Near Fine . Ill.: Edwin Noble. Near Fine .