Three Hundred Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Three Hundred Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: grc

en_US Second printing?

en_US Literally Translated from the Greek by the Rev. Geo. Fyler Townsend, M.A.

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Weir, Harrison

Date

2016-01-25T15:47:35Z

en_US 2013-10

en_US 1871

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:47:35Z

Date Issued

en_US 1867

Abstract

en_US Here is a lucky find on eBay -- and cheap! Many of my Routledge Weir editions are dated to 1885 and thereafter. I was thrilled to find an 1867 edition. This seems to be a later printing of that book. All that I wrote about that copy applies to this copy too, except perhaps that the illustrations are not as vivid here. There I said that I wasI delighted with this 1867 book, especially because it is now my oldest Weir publication. I am also delighted because it may show Weir's work to best advantage, since the illustrations are done on good paper and are in good condition. Weir so often appears in cheap editions whose illustrations are indistinct! Among the most memorable illustrations here are LM (1), WL (3), WC (5), TH (9), The Seagull and the Kite (108), and The Ass and His Driver (199). There is a set of illustrations that I find sketchier and almost ethereal. They would include The Labourer and the Snake (33) and The Blind Man and the Whelp (167). Bodemann puts in 1865 the first printing of a book with this title but with only fifty illustrations. That book's title-page does not mention Greenaway. Her #335.2 speaks of a book from about 1890 as a Nachdruck der im Illustrationsbestand erweiterten zweiten Ausgabe London 1867. This is that zweite Ausgabe. The spine reads The Fables of Aesop without mention of Three Hundred. The title-page after identifying London and Routledge and before giving the year adds: The Broadway, Ludgate. New York: 416, Broome Street.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier cf. #335.2

en_US 9897 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76707

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US George Routledge and Sons

en_US London

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 T6 1871 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole