Name/Title
Aesop's Fables Illustrated by Ernest Griset / J.B. RundellEntry/Object ID
2015.7.53Description
Bound for Beauty #18
146 p. : ill.
Revised and rewritten by J.B. Rundell, with text bases chiefly upon Croxall, La Fontaine, and L'Estrange. Profusely illustrated in black and white from engravings by Ernest Griset in full page plates and smaller vignettes.Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' BindingsLexicon
Search Terms
Fables., 1870sBook Details
Author
J.B. RundellIllustrator
Ernest Henry GrisetPublisher
Lee & ShepardPlace Published
City
BostonState/Province
MassachusettsCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaDate Published
1878Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's Binding- VictorianBinding Notes
Unusual and striking decorative cover in dark grey cloth depicting a man lying on a forest floor surrounded by black stamped tree trunks and exposed roots confronted by a gilt stamped axe-wielding grim reaper. Based on a Griset engraving for the fable "Mercury and the Woodman." Titles in red are woven throughout the trees. Eerily grim and haunting. Gilt decoration to spine. Beveled edges. All edges gilt.Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
AesopExhibition
Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection
