Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Edited and Rewritten by Elizabeth Stones

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Kelen, Emery

Date

2016-01-25T16:30:51Z

en_US 2000-03

en_US 1944

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:30:51Z

Date Issued

en_US 1944

Abstract

en_US A fine book. I am surprised that I have never seen it before. Seventy-eight fables, enhanced by twenty-four full-color and many black-and-white illustrations, somewhat after the fashion of Fritz Kredel. The best of the colored illustrations are of FS (19), the bear and the bees (41), LM (45), and the monkey and and the camel (49). Several times (5 and 10, 19 and 20) one image is developed or taken from another. Do not miss the end-papers, which offer a colorful melange of fable characters excerpted from the colored illustrations. Doctor Toad (26) is especially well told. The first story's illustration (rooftop) does not match its version (tree, 5). The frog forgot that the mouse could not swim and so drowned him by mistake (15). The donkey who tries to live on dew in order to sing like a grasshopper almost dies (24). The AI at the end of the book mistakenly gives 65 instead of 45 for LM. This copy is not in very good condition.

Identifier

en_US 3372 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78748

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Hyperion Press

en_US NY

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 S76 1944 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole