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Rhymes and Fables / Vincent Torre
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FA.B86.0395
114, [3] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
1996
Number 53 in an Edition of 150; part of a four book set created by the artist; board bound book with orange spine cloth and paper with a repeat pattern; title printed on spine and front cover. Woodcuts illustrate seventeen fables or stories in verse, some original and some adapted from fables by Aesop, La Fontaine et.al. "One hundred fifty copies of this book have been printed on American etching paper. The type is Garamond, set by hand. The illustrations are cut in wood and printed from the blocks. Each copy is bound by hand. This is copy number 53"--colophon, signed by the artist.
