Aesop's Fables: A New Revised Version From Original Sources.

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables: A New Revised Version From Original Sources.

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Weir, Harrison

Date

2016-01-25T15:37:44Z

en_US 2014-04

en_US 1910?

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:37:44Z

Date Issued

en_US 1910

Abstract

en_US This book is internally exactly the same as books of the same title that I have listed in the same year. That it has exactly the same plates is clear, e.g., from the broken typeface at the top of 5. It repeats the blooper of those other texts on the title-page: Uwards of 200 Illustrations! I had called a previous cover for this book outrageous: two young riders ride into the viewer's world. I wrote then: This cover-maker must have been having fun! On an earlier edition he pictured two young men, apparently a golfer and a pole-vaulter. Here he has two men moving toward the reader in a canoe, the closer one holding a rifle across his lap. Are these the men who have come to shoot the one-eyed deer? The choice of image remains a mystery to me! Now this book has an even more outrageous cover image: a baseball player and a football player, separated by a golden eagle and an instance of the American flag. Though there are thirteen stripes, there are only twenty-five stars; the twenty-sixth state was admitted into the Union in 1837. I struggle to find a connection with Aesop. Is the publisher trying to sell books to children interested in sports? Might there be a whole series of sports-covers for this fable book? Is Hurst stressing that this is an American edition? The book is inscribed on June 10, 1912. My guess of a dating of 1910 may not be too far off.

Identifier

en_US 10074 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76064

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Hurst & Company

en_US New York, NY

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 W4 1910 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