Illustrated by Griset in Thirteen Original Parts
Aesop's Fables. Illustrated by Ernest Griset. With Text Based Chiefly Upon Croxall, La Fontaine, and L'Estrange. New and Enlarged Edition.
London: Cassell Petter & Galpin, 1870.
artist]. AESOP, [contributor]. Aesop's Fables. Illustrated by Ernest Griset. With Text Based Chiefly Upon Croxall, La Fontaine, and L'Estrange. New and Enlarged Edition. London: Cassell Petter & Galpin, 1870.
Full Description:
GRISET, Ernest, [artist]. AESOP. Aesop's Fables. Illustrated by Ernest Griset. With Text Based Chiefly Upon Croxall, La Fontaine, and L'Estrange. New and Enlarged Edition. London: Cassell Petter & Galpin, [n.d.c.a. 1870].
New and enlarged edition, in thirteen original parts. Quarto (10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches; 272 x 190 mm)). With over 150 illustrations in the text, many of which are full page. We could find no other set of the original parts beside this current set at auction.
Original printed blue wrappers. With advertisements on inside of front wrapper and both sides of back wrapper. Parts 12 and 13 with an additional two-leaf advertisement booklet bound in at the back. Front wrapper of part I with some soiling and repairs. All other parts wrappers very clean and crisp. Some occasional small, almost invisible repairs to spines. A bit of light foxing to some parts. Overall a very good set. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell with printed paper spine label.
"Griset was an animal-artist, dividing this interest into two distinct strands. Some of his activity took the form of closely observed paintings. These were based on studies from the life which he conducted in London Zoo, where Walter Crane regularly saw him at work... However, his speciality was humorous and satirical designs for the printed page in which the animals act, as in the art of Weir, as surrogates for human behaviour... Griset’s two outstanding books, Aesop’s Fables and Griset’s Grotesques, were among the most significant hits of their time. Both were Christmas books and were designed to entertain the middle-class family over the holiday period." (Simon Cooke, Victorian Web dot org).
HBS 68884.
$1,500.
Price: $1,500.00
Item #68884