PARKER (Agnes Miller)
The Fables of Esope
A REMARKABLY WELL-PRESERVED COPY OF AGNES MILLER PARKER'S MASTERPIECE
Very good, spine slightly rubbed, particularly at head and tail, with some loss of finish, covers slightly scuffed and rubbed at extremities, internally fine, but overall a remarkably attractive copy of this famously fragile book, whose binding of local undyed sheepskin is overly delicate and subject to wear.
Presentation copy, inscribed to ‘R. Hodgson from Agnes Miller Parker, 1932’. The identity of the recipient is unknown, it seems unlikely but not impossible that it may be the english poet Ralph Hodgson, the two certainly had mutual friends.
Arguably the finest book printed at the Gregynog Press, it was the illustrations for Esope which brought the name of Agnes Miller Parker to prominence. ‘Never can living creatures have been more successfully portrayed in so static a medium. The feeling of movement is so admirably achieved that the engravings have an almost three- dimensional quality’ (Dorothy Harrop, The Gregynog Press).
