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CALDER, Alexander, artist. AESOP. Fables... according to Sir Roger L'Estrange. New York: Harrison of Paris, 1931.
4° (253 x 192 mm). 50 line block text illustrations, original cardboard paper-knife loosely inserted, 2 original drawings by Calder on one leaf, signed in the upper left corner. Original boards, uncut, original slipcase, printed title labels on backstrip and on slipcase. Provenance: Monroe Wheeler (presentation inscription from the artist, "With mountains of love - to - Monroe Wheeler - Sander Calder NYC", handwritten envelope loosely inserted).
LIMITED EDITION, copy no. XV of 50 copies on Guarro's Spanish pure rag paper with colored silk threads, each containing an original drawing for one of the illustrations, from the edition of 665. The original drawing in this copy contains two vignettes, the first of three hens sitting on a stick (headpiece illustration for "A Woman and A Fat Hen"), the other of two fighting cocks (illustrating the last fable "Two Cocks Fighting"). The Artist and the Book 47.
4° (253 x 192 mm). 50 line block text illustrations, original cardboard paper-knife loosely inserted, 2 original drawings by Calder on one leaf, signed in the upper left corner. Original boards, uncut, original slipcase, printed title labels on backstrip and on slipcase. Provenance: Monroe Wheeler (presentation inscription from the artist, "With mountains of love - to - Monroe Wheeler - Sander Calder NYC", handwritten envelope loosely inserted).
LIMITED EDITION, copy no. XV of 50 copies on Guarro's Spanish pure rag paper with colored silk threads, each containing an original drawing for one of the illustrations, from the edition of 665. The original drawing in this copy contains two vignettes, the first of three hens sitting on a stick (headpiece illustration for "A Woman and A Fat Hen"), the other of two fighting cocks (illustrating the last fable "Two Cocks Fighting"). The Artist and the Book 47.