Sale 2519 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, October 10, 2019

497 c   RACKHAM,ARTHUR. Aesop’s Fables. Frontispiece and 12 color plates with lettered tissue guards, numerous black-and-white illustrations, and endpaper designs, by Rackham. 8vo, publisher’s scarce variant limp leather stamped in brown and gold, a few light spots and faint, unobtrusive ring of dampstaining to upper right portion of cover, otherwise unusually bright and unworn; top edges trimmed and gilt. London: Heinemann; and NewYork: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912 [3,000/4,000] first trade edition in scarce pictorial leather , and with an original pen - and - ink self - portrait by rackham . The great English illustrator shows himself in a humorous pose on skis, bare-chested and bespectacled, donning giant boots, mittens, and hat, set against a mountain background. 140x130 mm; 5 1 / 2 x5 inches. Signed and dated January 1914, tipped to front blank, a bit of toning and soft fold marks. ARTHUR RACKHAM LOTS 497 - 506