Aesop's Fables, Complete and Unabridged

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables, Complete and Unabridged

en_US MacMillan Collector's Library

Description

en_US First printing

en_US Translated by V.S. Vernon Jones. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham and others; hand-coloured by Barbara Frith

Creator

en_US Jones, V.S. Vernon See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Rackham, Arthur

en_US South, Anna (Afterword)

Date

2018-07-05T18:38:12Z

en_US 2018-05

en_US 2017

Date Available

2018-07-05T18:38:12Z

Date Issued

en_US 2017

Abstract

en_US This book is a reissue of a book published in 2014 by Collector's Library. It includes 284 numbered fables and so is a "complete and unabridged" copy of what was first published by Heinemann and by Doubleday in 1912. The hand-coloring is nicely done. For examples, notice the court scene on 136 and "The Bald Man and the Fly" on 152. Less well done are the illustrations already colored by Rackham. The small format (4" x 6¼"), brown titles, and lovely illustrations make this a very nice edition. The dust jacket has the smiling fox serving a very large platter to a stork on the front and, on the back, the fox emptying an amphora's last drop, with "Slow and steady wins the race" somewhat illogically above that illustration.

Identifier

en_US 11304 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/118599

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US MacMillan

en_US London

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5V47 2017 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