Fables of Aesop According to Sir Roger L'Estrange with Fifty Drawings by Alexander Calder
Fables of Aesop According to Sir Roger L'Estrange with Fifty Drawings by Alexander Calder is a 124-page softcover first published in 1931 by Harrison of Paris. This copy published in 1967 by Dover Publications, Inc. The condition is excellent, with clean pages and tight binding. Book Summary This Dover volume brings into general circulation for the first time a rare edition of Aesop's Fables issued in Paris in 1931 and limited to only 665 copies. The book combines the 1692 translation of the Fables by English journalist Sir Roger L'Estrange with 50 drawings created especially as illustration for the tales by American sculptor, painter, and illustrator Alexander Calder. L'Estrange's 17th-century rendering of the fables is a delight to read, judged by The Cambridge History of English Literature "the best that we have." Calder's art needs no special introduction: his widely displayed "mobiles" and "stabiles" have won him international popularity. The drawings Calder executed for th