A Sample of Aesop

(Libanus Press.) AESOP. Whistler (Helen, Rex, Laurence)

A Sample of Aesop

by Helen and Rex Whistler, recalled by Laurence Whistler.

Description: PROOF COPY FROM AN EDITION OF 175 COPIES, printed in Romulus types, the drawings reproduced by the Senecio Press, title printed in black and blue with elaborate cypher of Rex Whistler, Richard Shirley Smith's Studio Library bookplate to front endpaper, Libanus Press proof blind stamp to final text leaf, pp. [12], 4to, original lemon yellow wrappers, front with lettering and device printed in blue, fine

Publication Details: (printed at the Libanus Press for) Bertram Rota, 1993

Notes: 'The Satyr and the Traveller' and 'The Two Springs', adapted, in verse, by Helen and illustrated in typically intricate style by her son, Rex, reproduced here for the first time, sixty years after they were created. Dedicated to Laurence Whistler's great friend, Rachel Trickett, Principal of St. Hugh's College, Oxford, from 1973 to 1991.

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Price: £65

Subject: Press

Published Date: 1993

Stock Number: 73882

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