A collection of Aesop's traditional moral fables, translated by V.S. Vernon Jones, with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton and black-and-white and colour illustrations by Arthur Rackham. 1916 first edition second impression; green boards with gilt decor to front and spine. Condition: Boards very shelfworn, corner bumped to card, very rubbed, marked, tanned, possible past damp-staining, head and tail of spine frayed. Ex-libris sticker, previous owners' names, and a couple of what appear to be sums to front FEPs. Considerable foxing and some marks throughout, some pages have small closed tears, but all pages remain readable. Coloured frontispiece is missing, last coloured plate is detached from binding, a couple of the coloured plates are missing their tissue page protectors and other tissue pages have been used to trace the picture below in pen, but all coloured plates except frontispiece are present. Internal hinges are cracking badly, but binding hangs on.