Aesop — Fables from Aesop and Others

New York, Transatlantic Arts, 1944. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this brightly illustrated collection of fables attributed to Aesop and others. First edition illustrated by Arnrid Johnston. With the vanishingly scarce original price-clipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with twenty-three colour images. Collated complete. A collection of the fables attributed to Aesop, a Greek fabulist and storyteller noted for his tales characterized by anthropomorphic animal characters. Many of the tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Including stories such as: The Fox and the Crow, The Lion and the Mouse, and The Fox and the Grapes, amongst others. Illustrated by Arnrid Banniza Johnston, a Swedish sculptor and illustrator, who spent the majority of her life and career in Britain. Dated from the British Library. In the original quarter cloth binding with pictorial paper covered boards. Externally, smart with light wear and minor bumping to the extremities. The odd small mark to the boards. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is sound with light wear and chipping to the extremities. The odd small mark with light loss to the tail of the spine and panel edges. The odd closed tear has been sympathetically repaired with tape to the internal side of the wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Minor age toning to the extremities. Very Good . Ill.: Arnrid Johnston. Very Good/Good.