A Selection of Aesop's Fables
By Susan Viguers & James Engelbart
Philadelphia / Minneapolis: Shandy Press / Snout Press
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Shandy Press, 2006. Edition of 100.

6 x 7.75"; 28 leaves printed on recto, verso blank. Images created by James Engelbart using polymer plates and stencils. Designed, printed, and bound by Engelbart & Viguers. Text and image printed on a Vandercook Press. Fonts are New Century Schoolbook and Imprint MP Shadow. Paper is Schiller. Bound in tan bookcloth with paper title label on front board.

Susan Viguers wrote the text by drawing on several collections but primarily on Joseph Jacobs’ The Fables of Aesop (London, 1894). The illustrations, created by James Engelbart of Snout Press, are based on the writings of Pliny the Elder. The book was commissioned by The Friends of the Print Collection of The Free Library of Philadelphia for the 7th annual Robert F. Looney Memorial Event Bound/Unbound.

From the Foreword: "This translation of Aesop is based on the Assemblies of Aesopic Tales of Demetrius Phalareus, the recently discovered scroll that miraculously survived the razings of the Alexandrian libraries....What it shows us is that the genius of Aesop was not only his ability to see truths in the events he transcribed, but also his knowledge of the language of the animals."
(SOLD/Out of Print)