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RACKHAM, ARTHUR. Aesop's Fables. Frontispiece and 12 color plates with lettered tissue guards, numerous black-and-white illustrations, and endpaper designs, by Rackham. 8vo, publisher's scarce variant limp leather stamped in brown and gold, a few light spots and faint, unobtrusive ring of dampstaining to upper right portion of cover, otherwise unusually bright and unworn; top edges trimmed and gilt. London: Heinemann; and New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912
first trade edition in scarce pictorial leather, and with an original pen-and-ink self-portrait by rackham. The great English illustrator shows himself in a humorous pose on skis, bare-chested and bespectacled, donning giant boots, mittens, and hat, set against a mountain background. 140x130 mm; 5 1/2x5 inches. Signed and dated January 1914, tipped to front blank, a bit of toning and soft fold marks.
