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[RACKHAM, ARTHUR, illustrator]. AESOP. Aesop's Fables. A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones. Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. London, 1912. 13 mounted color plates, numerous full-page and text illustrations by Rackham. 4to, full green morocco, covers with gilt borders, front cover with inset central panel containing an onlaid vari-colored morocco design (in slight relief) depicting four figures from "The Hare and the Tortoise", spine gilt-decorated, board edges and turn-ins gilt, g.e., by BAYNTUN-RIVIERE; quarter morocco folding case. LIMITED EDITION, number 536 of 1450 signed by Rackham.