Aesopic: Twenty Four Couplets

by Anthony Hecht

Pp. (32); with 24 wood engravings from the blocks by Thomas Bewick. Original pale green paper-covered boards with small paper title label in red on the spine, square 8vo (8 x 8 3/8 inches). This work was issued in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies, this is no. 16, signed on the colophon by Leonard Baykin. This work was printed by Harold McGrath in Palatino type on Fabriano paper in black and red, bound by Robert Burlen of Boston in green Fabriano over boards, with paper label. No ownership marks but from the private library of R. Hunter Middleton who owned the Cherryburn Press.

Hardcover