Item
The Fables of Aesop
- Title
- en_US The Fables of Aesop
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Selected, told anew and their history traced by Joseph Jacobs
- Creator
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Heighway, Richard
- Date
- 2016-01-25T20:04:14Z
- en_US 2000-01
- en_US 1929
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T20:04:14Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1929
- Abstract
- en_US This book duplicates and recognizes MacMillan's printings -- some fourteen of them -- between 1894 and 1929. It lacks the typical frontispiece of FS. The cover is red cloth with a simple printer's design on the front. I will include comments from an 1894 copy I have. There is a curious pre-title page that says Jacobs's Fables of Aesop. I love Heighway's work! There are 220 pages, followed by a two-page AI. Some of the early elements following the curious Jacobs's page include: a right-page dedication to Prof. F.J. Child; a preface signed by Jacobs beginning on the right page (ix) and ending over a design on xii; a Contents page; A Short History of the Aesopic Fable (xv-xxii); List of Fables (xxiii-xxv) including eighty-two fables numbered here but not in the text; a left-page showing a hand holding a mirror's reflection of a demon and a right page with a framed scroll of a title (The Fables of Aesop); and finally The Cock and the Pearl (2-3). By contrast with many of the smaller editions, the two pages of one fable here face each other, and so one does not need to turn a page to finish a fable. The illustrations, titles, and closing designs are very distinct here. Among the best are The Hart & the Hunter (64), The Fox & the Cat (90), The Shepherd's Boy (103), The Four Oxen & The Lion (123), and GGE (134). This book was born in a tumultuous time!
- Identifier
- en_US 7195 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US The Book League of America
- en_US New York, NY
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.2.A254 Jac 1929 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
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books