[Rarebooks] OFFER 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN ILLUSTRATOR IN LIMITED EDITION.

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STEPHENS, HENRY L.: THE FABLES OF AESOP; WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HENRY L. 
STEPHENS ; 1868. [i]-x, 1-76 p., 1l. : ill. ; 32 cm. New York : J.W. 
Bouton. This issue was limited to 250 copies and presents all of the plates 
as proofs before lettering.  Like the Nursery Rhymes series which was 
issued in an ordinary edition and in two limited editions, one of 100 large 
paper copies with each book separately pubvlished, and one in which three 
of the series were published in each volume of a two volume set, this issue 
was for adult collectors of Stephens illustrations. He was the only 
American artist of the 19th century for whom collectors limited editions 
were issued in the 19th century. He was also the only American artist who 
came up with an independent style drawing animals in human clothes and 
postures.  Although he was indebted to both Kaulbach and Grandville, his 
style is individual and different from their work. He may have been 
influenced by William Holbrook Beard, who showed animals in manlike 
postures and actions, but not wearing any clothes and in forest settings, 
something which Stephens also did. OCLC: 3 Locs. [NYP, OUN, TXH], no copy 
of any issue of this work is to be found at Hamilton 1 or Supplement, nor 
at the MWA {American Antiquarian Society].  Original ¼ calf, gilt Dec. 
spine, gilt titles, black cloth boards, marbled EPs., Very Good externally, 
Fine within. $1500.00

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