Aesop's Fables with Instructive Morals

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables with Instructive Morals

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Richardson

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T16:29:58Z

en_US 1993-05

en_US 1753?

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:29:58Z

Date Issued

en_US 1740

Abstract

en_US I have changed the date on this edition after getting a copy of a London edition, for which I have guessed a date of 1761. This edition seems to be that which Ulrike Bodemann places as a second edition of 1753, at the same time as an identical edition from London with a long list of publishers. Notice Richardson's attempt, even on the title page, to avoid the factionalism that surrounded l'Estrange and others. He himself finds two English editions worthy of notice: l'Estrange and Croxall. At the end of the preface (xii-xiii), there are lists of fables from l'Estrange not included here, of fables given new morals or reflections, and of fables altered from the l'Estrange version. A life of Aesop and an alphabetical index follow, still before the fables. Morals and Reflections are presented separately from each other, though sometimes two fables are handled together and share both of the above. Missing: 101-4 and the pages of illustrations for #101-110, #131-40, and #161-70. Many of the illustrations are water-colored. They are simple in design and execution. They differ apparently from the illustrations, six to a page, in Lessing's translation of Richardson in 1757. Depictions of lions and of frogs are particularly haphazard (117, 155, 156, 158). There are many new fables for me, and some traditional ones are told differently. The miller throws his ass into the water (#226)! Errata: 89 at top has Aesop's Fbales. 137 (#175) has in its moral my for may. #212 has in its fifth-to-last line feul for fuel. #233 has conside-able. It needs an r. I can report now, in Feb., '97, that these text errors are not in the Huntington copy, for which some hand has guessed 1750 as a date. Its title page lists London: Printed for J. Rivington, R. Baldwin and a list of some thirteen others. One of those thirteen is a J. Dodsley. Bodemann comments aptly that the illustrations are based on those of Barlow.

Identifier

en_US 3147 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78550

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US printed for T. Wilson and R. Spence

en_US York

Subject

en_US PA3855 .E5 1753 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