Item
The Fables of Esope, Translated Out of Frensshe
- Title
- en_US The Fables of Esope, Translated Out of Frensshe
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US No. 221 of a limited edition of 250 copies
- en_US William Caxton
- Creator
- en_US Caxton, William (translator) See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Parker, Agnes Miller
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:59:36Z
- en_US 2010-04
- en_US 1931
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:59:36Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1931
- Abstract
- en_US There are ninety-seven fables of Romulus in five books and seventeen further Aesop's fables in Caxton's late medieval versions. Caxton's ever-present slashes have been well replaced with colons. The title-picture includes grasshopper, stag, wolf and dog, and two birds. Among them are reeds and pages of print. There are, as Bodemann points out, seventy-five initials, the title-picture, and thirty-six illustrations in the text. The initials, done by the printer William MacCance, are frequently repeated. They do not deal with the subject matter of the fable they begin. The Parker woodcuts are simply lovely! One after another is engaging. I will start by using GA and the title-page to give people an idea of her artistry. One could take almost any of the thirty-seven woodcuts and find it leading to a good understanding of the fable. I will include some comments from the bookdealer. This is the original printing, bound in brown sheepskin which is mottled, darkened and rubbed, repaired at the head and heel of spine, corners pushed and fraying, new endpapers, edges rough-trimmed, initial letters designed and engraved by William MacCance, the printer at Gregynog, internally the pages and illustrations are clean and crisp, with a small mark and some browning to the inner edge of the title page, white mark (like correction fluid) to the edge of the following page, and the occasional slight sign of handling.
- Identifier
- en_US Bodemann identifier 427.1
- en_US 6876 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US The Gregynog Press
- en_US Newtown, Montgomeryshire Wales
- Subject
- en_US PA3855.E5 C3 1931 See all items with this value
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books