Aesop's Fables Illustrated by Ernest Griset / J.B. Rundell
Entry/Object ID
2015.7.53
Description
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' Bindings
Lexicon
Search Terms
Fables., 1870s
Dimensions
Height
8-1/2 in
Book Details
Author
J.B. Rundell
Illustrator
Ernest Henry Griset
Publisher
Lee & Shepard
Place Published
City
Boston
State/Province
Massachusetts
Country
United States
Continent
North America
Date Published
1878
Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's Binding- Victorian
Binding 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
Aesop
Exhibition
Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection
