Picture Fables

Title

en_US Picture Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: ger

en_US F. Hey, Henry W. Dulcken

Creator

en_US Dalziel, Edward (engraver) See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Speckter, Otto

Date

2016-01-25T15:52:39Z

en_US 1992-08

en_US 1858

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:52:39Z

Date Issued

en_US 1858

Abstract

en_US Several fables touch on Aesopic material (e.g., The Bat and the Bird on 36 and The Thief and the Dog on 86). There is a lovely frontispiece of life with the animals. The best feature might be the drawings of inanimate objects: ham and sausage on 51 and a jug and a pail on 53. The engravings come out here much better than in One Hundred Picture Fables with Rhymes (1879?), which uses the same plates for the fables. The twelve-line tellings are trite and saccharin; the characters tend to be humans rather than beasts. Anne Stevenson Hobbs has remarked that these are really not fable material, and I tend to agree with her. The etchings by Speckter here are different from those in the original German. Is F. Hey related to Wilhelm Hey, who did the original texts? The 1864 printing shows a significant range of differences, none touching the fables and illustrations themselves. Thus it has a different cover decoration and spine arrangement and new red ink on the title-page and the page before it. The address in NY has changed, and now Camden Press prints this copy. There is new color in the print and decoration of the preface. The paper in this printing has not lasted as well. There is some amateurish coloring of the illustrations in the 1864 copy.

Identifier

en_US 1281 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76859

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US George Routledge and Sons

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.H49 Pic 1858 See all items with this value

en_US Hey See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole