Item
Original Fables and Sketches
- Title
- en_US Original Fables and Sketches
- en_US (The Leisure Hour Library)
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- By Mrs. Prosser (Eleanor B.)
- Creator
- en_US Prosser, Eleanor B. See all items with this value
- Date
- 2019-01-28T20:29:51Z
- 2018-10
- en_US 1885?
- Date Available
- 2019-01-28T20:29:51Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1885
- Abstract
- en_US This book seems to replicate internally another in the collection, dated to "1885?". The difference here is that the cover (and nothing else) identifies it as a school prize in Ontario. Also, the frontispiece illustration is lacking, as well as page 97-98. Researching this new copy led me to a publishers' circular from 1875 advertising the book in the "Leisure Hour" Library. That may be a better date for both copies. Let me modify my comments about the first copy. There are seventy-five moralistic tales here. They seem to be at least largely the same as the seventy-three tales I count in "Fables for the Young Folks" from the American Tract Society, which I have dated to "1900?" I did not find the selection that I read any more fetching this time than I did last! There are eighteen items in a second section "Tales and Sketches" beginning on 94. There are three full-page black-and-white illustrations here, none of them relating to the fables, as far as I can tell. They are on 96, 157, and 221.
- Identifier
- en_US 11444 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US The Leisure Hour Office
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.2.P94Or 1885b See all items with this value
- By Mrs. Prosser (Eleanor B.) See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books