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Aesop's Fables

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1996? Aesop's Fables. CD. PDFs of editions in English, German, Latin, and Spanish. Jewel case cover of Steinhoewel's title-page. Purchased online.

This CD contains Aesop in four languages. The key to the English edition may be that the publisher is listed as "Cassell, Petter, Galpin, & Co." The company took that specific name in 1878. Note also the comment after the introduction by JBR(undell) that about 130 fables not in the first and second editions have been added by another editor. A guess says that this is the edition in our collection for which I have guessed a date of 1890. The break before the added 132 fables comes at the top of 219 here, as in that edition. 1869 and 1874 may have been the dates of the first and second editions, both published, as I believe, without clear indication of a date of publication. The German editionlisted as published in 1479, seems to be an authentic Steinhoewel, part of the Rosenwald collection given to the Library of Congress. The Latin, likewise from Rosenwald and LC, is the Sebastian Brant edition of 1501, printed by Jacob of Pfortzheim . The illustrations are hand-colored. There seems to be another book bound together with Brant's "Esopus." The Spanish version is from Jacob Cronberger in 1521. This disc is a richer resource than I had thought! To get a menu, click on "CD-Start."

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Carlson Fable Collection

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“Aesop's Fables,” Creighton University Libraries: Archives & Special Collections, accessed October 16, 2024, https://creightonarchives.omeka.net/items/show/601.

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