The subtyl historyes and fables of Esope / translated out of Frensshe in to Englysshe by William Caxton at Westmynstre in the yere of oure Lorde .mcccc.lxxxiij.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aesop, attributed name.

Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492, translator.

Koch, Rudolf, 1876-1934, type designer.

Grabhorn Press, printer, binder.

Japan Paper Company, papermaker.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Aesop's fables. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fables, French--Translations into English.

Fables, French.

Fables, Greek--Adaptations.

Fables, Greek.

Genre:

Adaptations.

Translations.

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bibel-Gotisch.

Case bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Fables.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Rothschild, Herbert Lionel (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 167 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : The Grabhorn Press, MCMXXX [1930]

Notes:

"Two hundred copies printed and bound at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, in December 1920. One hundred and seventy-five copies (numbered 26 to 200) are for sale. Initials and decorations by Valenti Angelo. This is copy number [blank]"--Colophon.

"Colophon, six initials, and one hundred and seventeen illustrative initials by Valenti Angelo printed in red. Paragraph marks in green, illustration on title page, and six headpieces all drawn and hand-colored by Valenti Angelo. Type Koch Bibel Gotische, handset; paper Unbleached Arnold. Bound in red leather; title in gold on back. One hundred and seventy-five regular copies, numbered 26-200, printed for direct sale ... Also twenty-five special copies, numbered 1-25, privately printed for Herbert Rothchild. These differ as follows: (1) P. 168 blank (2) New colophon (3) Three blank leaves at end (40 Entirely different set of initials hand-drawn and hand-colored in red by Valenti Angelo (5) One additional illuminated illustration at foot of second page of text (6) Paragraph marks hand-colored in red and blue (7) Binding tooled in gold ... Although the original plan was to hand-illuminate the initials through the entire edition, the idea was abandoned after the twenty-five 'special' copies were finished because the printers felt that the hand-illuminated initials were not fitted to the subject. They consider the book much more successful in the regular edition."--Heller.

"A curious error occurred in the printing of this book; the date on the title page was given as 1383 instead of 1483. Fortunately the error was discovered before the regular edition left the shop, and was corrected by hand. The twenty-five special copies for Herbert Rothchild, however, were distributed with the mistake unchanged."--Heller.5

Deckled edges, untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is #21 of 25 copies signed Herbert L. Rothschild.

Culture Class Collection copy has error on date of English translation on title page. According to Heller & Magee, "a curious error occurred in the printing of this book," as the date of the original translation (1483) was mistakenly given on the title page as 1383; the discovery was made "before the regular edition left the shop and was corrected by hand."

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 117 (the copy number supplied in manuscript in red ink) of a limited edition of 200 copies, of which 175 (numbered 26-200) were for sale. See colophon.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Cited in:

Heller, E.R. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 142

OCLC:

5654264

Publisher Number:

PML 76626