CALDER, Alexander (illus.); AESOP.

£12,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Fables. First edition, limited issue, number XXVII of 50 copies, with a tipped-in original published drawing signed by the artist. The drawing in this copy is from the Cock and Diamond fable. The text of the present edition is based on Roger L'Estrange's translation of Aesop's Fables (1692). Harrison of Paris was founded by publisher and heiress Barbara Harrison Wescott (1904-1977) and art patron and curator Monroe Wheeler (1899-1988) in 1930. The illustrator, Alexander Calder, came from a long line of sculptors, and first took up printmaking after moving to Paris in 1926, where he befriended Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Leger, Joan Miró, and Piet Mondrian.

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