Frink (Elisabeth) - Aesop's Fables.

Aesop's Fables. Illustrated by Elisabeth Frink. Oblong folio, [106] leaves, French-folded, 28 X 40cm, London: R. Alistair McAlpine & Leslie Waddington Prints, 1968.

Number 145 of 250 copies printed in sienna and black at the Curwen Press on Zerkall handmade paper. Half-title signed by the artist, 47 illustrations (some coloured), 4 original lithographs at the rear. In this copy the lithographs have not been individually signed. Bound by Mansell with honey morocco front board elaborately blocked in gilt, spine and back in orange morocco, spine gilt, green endpapers, green cloth slipcase. A fine copy.

This selection from the Fables which by tradition are attributed to Aesop were included in Murray's 1897 edition.