The Original Fables of La Fontaine: Tales for Children of Many Lands

Title

en_US The Original Fables of La Fontaine: Tales for Children of Many Lands

Description

en_US Frederick Colin Tilney

Creator

en_US Tilney, Frederick Colin See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Tilney, Frederick Colin

Date

2016-12-01T20:16:49Z

en_US 2016-09

en_US 2016

Date Available

2016-12-01T20:16:49Z

Date Issued

en_US 2016

Abstract

en_US This is a curious published-upon-demand book. It represents some of the features that set me against this style of book. It seems to be a reprinting, including illustrations, of a book first published in 1913. I write "seems" because the publishers do not indicate the date of the original which they are copying. The front cover presents a lively picture of the fox waiting for the crow to drop his circle of cheese. The back cover strangely reverts to a French-language commendation of La Fontaine's fables. Turn two pages inside the book and we see the erroneous title for the frontispiece "The heart of Thyrsis left" whereas the list of illustrations four pages later has the correct "The heart of Thyrsis leapt." Readers may be upset at the wandering margins, for example, in that list of illustrations. Of course the colored illustrations are here rendered in black-and-white. The original was printed, as one finds here on the title page, by London: J.M. Dent and Sons in London and by E.P. Dutton in New York. One looks here in vain for an acknowledgement of the publisher of this printing.

Identifier

en_US 11076 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/107804

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US NA

Subject

en_US PQ1811.E3T5 2016 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole