Aesop's Fables Illustrated by Ernest Griset / J.B. Rundell
Book
Bound for Beauty #18
146 p. : ill.
Revised and rewritten by J.B. Rundell, with text bases chiefly upon Croxall, La Fontaine, and L'Estrange. Profusely illustrated in black and white from engravings by Ernest Griset in full page plates and smaller vignettes.
2015.7.53
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Fables.1870s
8-1/2 in
J.B. Rundell
Ernest Henry Griset
Boston
Massachusetts
United States
North America
1878
Publisher's Binding- Victorian
Unusual and striking decorative cover in dark grey cloth depicting a man lying on a forest floor surrounded by black stamped tree trunks and exposed roots confronted by a gilt stamped axe-wielding grim reaper. Based on a Griset engraving for the fable "Mercury and the Woodman." Titles in red are woven throughout the trees. Eerily grim and haunting. Gilt decoration to spine. Beveled edges. All edges gilt.
Aesop
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