Second edition of this Victorian tour de force, with fine and fabulous hand-colored images of humanized animals.
Very good.
Price: $850.00
Eric Quayle notes that Bennett (1829-1867) had a short career which was terminated by consumption but his books were "extremely popular, most passing though several editions"; this book "contains some of Bennett's finest and most vigorous work" (217). The Morgan Library's EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND THEIR ILLUSTRATORS also list it as a notable edition of Aesop. Bennett's compositions suggest the fine caricature of PUNCH, but applied a classic work of ancient Greece.
Read more: Quayle, Early Children's Books.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1875. 9.75'' x 7.25''. Original blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black. Yellow coated endpapers. Illustrated by Bennett with 24 full-page wood engravings, hand colored, including title page. 22 pages. Emboss of famed Victorian bookselling firm W.H. Smith & Son to front fly leaf. Slight lean, with a bit of cracking to hinges (still firm). Subtle repairs to spine ends, a few spots to boards. Interior lightly foxed. Bright.
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