The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes [SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR]

Bulfinch, Thomas; Dudley Fitts (introductory essay); Joe Mugnaini (illustrator). The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes [SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR]. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1958. First edition thus. Quarto. xix, (3), 230, (2)pp. Index of names. Double column text. Japan vellum spine with black lettered gold label, over gray & green patterned boards. Housed in publisher’s slightly toned cardboard slipcase with gold trimmed fore-edge and black on gold spine label. Illustrated with 24 unnumbered lithograph plates and numerous woodcut headpieces. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies (this is #1363). Signed on the limitation leaf by Joe Mugnani. One of the finest illustrated books from the stone lithographs of George C. Miller. Library donation stamp on half-title as well as several text leaves. But for those stamps, a near fine copy (priced accordingly). Very good. Hardcover. (50565) $75