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AESOP`S FABLES, ONE ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM

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AESOP`S FABLES, ONE ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM
<B>AESOP`S FABLES, ONE ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR RACKHAM</B><BR><BR>Two copies, the first "In Words of One Syllable", 1899 edition, published by Henry Altemus, Philadelphia, illustrated by Ernst Griset (uncredited), from the "One Syllable" series, the flyleaf inscribed "James Dec. 26, 1899". The second with translation by V.S. Vernon Jones, with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton, illustrated by Rackham. Garden City Publishing Company, New York, 1939, flyleaf signed "Love to Donnie from Mama and Daddy Xmas 1941", further notated and stamped with owner`s name. Red leather cover blind-stamped and with paste-down. Together with another Rackham-illustrated work, Where the Blue Begins, by Christopher Morley, J.P. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia-London-New York, 1922. 3 pieces.