Aesop's Fables: A New Version Chiefly from the Original Sources

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables: A New Version Chiefly from the Original Sources

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Seventy-eighth Thousand

en_US Thomas James

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Wolf, Joseph

Date

2016-01-25T20:00:31Z

en_US 2010-10

en_US 1882

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:00:31Z

Date Issued

en_US 1867

Abstract

en_US Here is another copy of the book first published in 1867. This copy is covered in blue cloth, but with a beautiful golden illustration with title and author embedded in the front cover. As I remark elsewhere, Tenniel's original 1848 work published by Murray apparently got such a negative response that, before reissuing it in 1851, the publisher asked Joseph Wolf to create replacements for many of the engravings, and Tenniel himself revised some of the others. Apparently Strahan published a Tenniel/Wolf edition in 1867, and this present, smaller-format book may be a later printing of that. The illustrations are surprisingly clean and clear for such a late printing. This printing still contains the 203 fables of the 1848 edition. MSA, the last fable, has six illustrations matching the six phases of this unusual fable. Consult my 1995 The Fables of Aesop from the QPBC for extensive comment on the movement from Tenniel to Wolf.

Identifier

en_US 7080 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82357

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US John Murray

en_US London

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 J36 1882 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole