The Fables of Esope.

PARKER (Agnes Miller)

A REMARKABLY WELL-PRESERVED COPY OF AGNES MILLER PARKER'S MASTERPIECE

Translated out of French into English by William Caxton. Illustrated with 37 wood-engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Wood-engraved initial letters by William McCance. One of 225 copies, this number 128. Small folio, 31.5 x 23cm, [8] 146pp [2]. Original full sheepskin by the Gregynog Press Bindery, with their neat binders stamp in black to rear turn-in. Newtown, The Gregynog Press, 1931.

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PARKER (Agnes Miller)

The Fables of Esope.

Very good, spine slightly rubbed, particularly at head and tail, with some loss of finish, covers slightly scuffed and rubbed at extremities, internally fine, but overall a remarkably attractive copy of this famously fragile book, whose binding of local undyed sheepskin is overly delicate and subject to wear.

Presentation copy, inscribed to 'R. Hodgson from Agnes Miller Parker, 1932'. The identity of the recipient is unknown, it seems unlikely but not impossible that it may be the english poet Ralph Hodgson, the two certainly had mutual friends.

Arguably the finest book printed at the Gregynog Press, it was the illustrations for Esope which brought the name of Agnes Miller Parker to prominence. 'Never can living creatures have been more successfully portrayed in so static a medium. The feeling of movement is so admirably achieved that the engravings have an almost three- dimensional quality' (Dorothy Harrop, The Gregynog Press).

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256877

The Fables of Esope.

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