The Fables of Æsop
The Work
Drew's Copy
Acquisition & Provenance
How This Copy Came to the Library
Drew purchased this copy on eBay frommoemoech on May 28, 2025. The book itself cost $32, and the order total was $48.26. It was delivered on June 2.Why This Book Is in My Library
This edition brings Æsop’s fables together with Edward J. Detmold’s celebrated color illustrations in a handsome modern fine-press presentation.Place in My Physical Library
This copy belongs among Drew’s illustrated classics and children’s literature, where the physical design is as important to the record as the text itself.About This Copy
This is the Folio Society’s second printing of The Fables of Æsop, issued in 1999. Although the title page is dated 1998, the production statement explicitly identifies this copy as the second printing of 1999.
The edition reproduces the illustrations Edward J. Detmold created for Hodder and Stoughton’s 1909 edition. It was typeset in Monotype Modern Extended and printed on Caxton Wove paper at St Edmundsbury Press. The color illustrations were printed by Amadeus Press, and the volume was bound in full cloth by Hunter & Foulis. Detmold’s original binding design was redrawn by David Eccles.
The tan cloth cover is one of the copy’s most distinctive features: a large red eagle fills the central panel, framed by dark-blue botanical borders and lettering.
This Folio Society volume preserves Edward J. Detmold’s 1909 illustrations and striking binding design in a finely produced 1999 second printing.
