Fables in Verse: From Aesop, La Fontaine, and Others

Title

en_US Fables in Verse: From Aesop, La Fontaine, and Others

Description

en_US Mary Anne Davis, Henry Corbould, and George James Corbould

Creator

en_US Corbould, George James See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T20:04:13Z

en_US 2010-08

en_US 2010

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:04:13Z

Date Issued

en_US 1822

Abstract

en_US This is another book printed on demand that can only outrage a booklover. The typesetting and proofreading render the book all but useless. As for typesetting, poetry is regularly rendered as prose here. The T of C is not set off; it can be hard to find. The omission of the first ten items vitiates even more the sense of a T of C. As for proofreading, Fable XXXV begins A PKOVEKB of an ancient date. Approved by time, and fixed as fate, Says, 'Evil fellowship will taint The purest morals of a saint. I put a period at the end of the sentence, but the original had none. It had a period between date and Approved, when there surely was a comma there. The quotation marks around the proverb are not closed. And proverb is clearly the word meant at the beginning of the sentence. What are we to say of a book that no one has troubled to clean up for the reader? For those who want to take the trouble, this volume seems to contain thirty-five fables and several other materials. I had not before heard, I believe, of this edition. I would have enjoyed reading it under other circumstances.

Identifier

en_US 7193 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82470

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US A.K. Newman Co./General Books

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.D295 Fab 2010 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop and others See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole