Aesop's Fables

New York: Limited Editions Cub, 1933. Hardcover. fine. Samuel Croxall's translation with a bibliographical note by Victor Scholderer. With forty six Florentine woodcuts, reproduced from a rare sixteenth century Aesop in the library of Wilfred Merton and redrawn by Rogers. One of 1500 numbered copies designed by Bruce Rogers and signed by him, printed by John Johnson at the University Press, Oxford.Bound in quarter vellum and marbled paper boards. Slipcase worn at the edges. Former owner's bookplate. Publisher's informational postcard laid in.