Aesop — Aesop&Apos;S Fables

New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1908. Cloth. The very scarce first Lucy Fitch Perkins illustrated edition of the popular fables of Aesop, with her fantastic colour plates throughout, and in the original early dust wrapper. The first Lucy Fitch Perkins illustrated edition. Illustrated by Lucy Fitch Perkins with a colour frontispiece, monochrome headpieces, and ten colour plates. In the publisher's pictorial cloth covers with the original unclipped early dust wrapper.Lucy Fitch Perkins was an American illustrator known for her delightful illustrations and children's books, such as her best known work 'Dutch Twins&apos. A charming illustrated collection of fables credited to Aesop, a Greek storyteller and fabulist whose tales were characterised by the anthropomorphic animal characters. In the publisher's original pictorial covers with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart, with a damp stain and a bump to the centre of the rear board. Owner's inscription to the front free endpaper, with tidemarks to the rear endpapers. The wrap has sunning to the spine and cover, the odd mark, small closed tears to the extremities, and a tidemark to the rear and verso. Internally firmly bound with clean and bright pages and tidemarks to the rear few pages. Very Good . Ill.: Lucy Fitch Perkins. Very Good/Good.