Item
The Fables of Aesop
- Title
- en_US The Fables of Aesop
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Original language: und
- en_US Selected and edited by Ruth Spriggs
- Creator
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Downer, Maggie
- Date
- 2016-01-25T20:11:23Z
- en_US 2012-04
- en_US 1995
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T20:11:23Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1995
- Abstract
- en_US Here is a large-format (9 x 11½) book I would describe as like a recent British Milo Winter. It offers some 108 classic fables with 72 new illustrations, all in colour, as the back cover proclaims. The illustrations, in various partial-page sizes, are classic: revealing, helpful, consonant with the tellings of the stories. Are the versions the same ones that Ruth Spriggs published with Frank Baber's illustrations twenty years earlier? The title-page illustration looks quite similar to things I remember from Baber. There are a T of C and two pages of background at the book's beginning. Particularly pleasant or revealing illustrations include The mountain (in labor, 8-9); WS, with the man taking a nap under a tree (15); The wolf and his shadow (26); and DLS (41). Here it is a grandson that joins a miller and his donkey (70-71). Less known -- and well illustrated with three pictures -- is The wolf and the donkey (58-59).
- Identifier
- en_US 9780856540639
- en_US 7735 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Peter Lowe: Eurobook Limited
- en_US S.l.
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.2.S665 Fab 1995 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