Aesop's Fables

Multiple artists/makers

1933

Not on view

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Provenance

Title: Aesop's Fables
Author: Aesop (Greek, ca. 620–560 BCE)
Illustrator: Bruce Rogers (American, Linwood, Indiana 1870–1957 New Fairfield, Connecticut)
Translator: Samuel Croxall (British, baptized Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, 1689–1752)
Author: Biographical note by Victor Scholderer (British, 1880–1971)
Publisher: The Limited Editions Club London
Publisher: Oxford University Press Oxford
Date: 1933
Medium: Illustrations: woodcut
Dimensions: 10 5/8 x 7 1/2 in. (27 x 19 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Administrative Purchase Fund, 1973
Object Number: 1973.535.1
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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