[Rarebooks] FS: AESOP'S FABLES Designed and SIGNED by Bruce Rogers

[Charles Agvent]

AESOP'S FABLES. [Oxford]: Limited Editions Club, 1933. Small quarto (7- 
1/8" x 10-1/4") bound in half vellum with gilt stamping and decorated 
paste-paper sides. The Samuel Croxall translation decorated with 
facsimiles of old Florentine woodcuts redrawn by Bruce Rogers who 
designed the book. Partly printed in red and black. Copy #834 of 1500 
SIGNED by the book's designer, perhaps the greatest American 
typographer, whose work is shown off well in this beautiful book. Slight 
darkening to the book's spine. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase with a 
short split. (#013832)        $250.00

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