Description
Beautiful edition by the publisher Guillermo Blázquez, 2001, Madrid, on the Spanish Fabulists Iriarte (1750-1791) and Samaniego (1745-1801) with color engravings by Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755). Texts bordered and accompanied by decorative illustrations. Introduction by Francisco Gutiérrez Carbajo.
Bound in blue silk with neoclassical gold and garnet stamping, gilt edges. Format 24.5 x 35 cm. 164 pages plus 31 color plates out of pagination.
Presented in a blue sleeve format 24.5 x 35.5 x 4 cm.
Limited edition of 750 hand-numbered copies, printed with artisan techniques, on laid bond paper.
Contains a selection of the best fables by Tomás de Iriarte and Nieves Ravelo (48) and by Félix María Sánchez de Samaniego Zabala (77). Who has not heard of the “tale of the milkmaid”, or “the cicada and the ant”, to give two examples?
Specimen in perfect condition, new. Ideal book to give as a gift: beautiful, entertaining, curious, illustrative…
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