Fables of Aesop: According to Sir Roger L'Estrange (translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange)
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- Artist
- Alexander Calder
- Author
- Aesop
- Designer
- Monroe Wheeler
- Printer
- Aimé Jourde
- Publishers
- Harrison of Paris, Minton, Balch and Company
- Translator
- Sir Robert Strange
- Title
- Fables of Aesop: According to Sir Roger L'Estrange (translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange)
- Date
- 1931
- Object Type
- Artist's Book
- Medium
- Original pen and ink drawing on cream wove paper; 52 line block reproductions after pen and ink drawings on Guarro's Spanish pure rag paper with colored silk threads; Boards covered with Guarro's Spanish rag paper with lettering on front; a paper knife of card stock printed with horned bull's head and title laid in; bookplate of "Albert Sperisen"; chemise covered in purple paper with title label on spine, lined in Guarro's Spanish rag paper; matching slipcase with title label on front
- Dimensions
- 10 3/16 x 7 7/8 x 13/16 in. (25.8 x 20 x 2 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Reva and David Logan Foundation
- Accession Number
- 1998.40.20.1-1
