THE FABLES OF AESOP
First trade edition of this stunningly illustrated collection of Aesop's fables: Detmold at his best.
First trade edition of this stunningly illustrated collection of Aesop's fables: Detmold at his best.
Signed limited edition of Grahame's reminiscences of his boyhood, framed as a conflict between the Olympians (adults) and the Argonauts (children) — the first with illustrations by regular collaborator Ernest H. Shepard.
First Rackham trade edition of six stories from Ancient Greek mythology, famously retold by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with gorgeous Golden Age illustrations.
First edition thus, in which the evocative Macedonian leader from antiquity receives a late Victorian update in this children's telling, beautifully illustrated by Mason with a consciously antiquarian flair.