[AESOP]. Aesop's Fables. London: William Heinemann, 1974.
NEW EDITION. Leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (20 x 14.5 x 3 cm); pp. xxix, 224. English text, a new translation by V. S. Vernon Jones, with an introduction by G. K. Chesterton, and illustrations throughout by Arthur Rackham. Beautifully bound in full polished calf gilt by Bayntun of Bath, England; all page edges gilt; hand-marbled endpapers; half-title; decorative title-page; twelve colour illustrations, including a frontispiece with tissue guard, and fifty-three illustrations in black and white. Condition: FINE. An immaculate copy, without previous ownership markings.