Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First edition?

en_US Versified by Mrs. Clara Doty Bates Accompanied by The Standard Translations from the Original Greek

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Orr, Jack

Date

2016-01-25T16:48:57Z

en_US 1998-06

en_US 1927?

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:48:57Z

Date Issued

en_US 1927

Abstract

en_US For a long time, I had thought this would be a book that would take hours to read because it is so thick. It turns out that it is only 96 pages long, with very thick paper. Orr's art work is very nice. I find three of the four color plates outstanding! They are The Eagle and the Crow (24), TB (torn, 48), The Thieves and the Cock (becoming loose, 72). There are many black-and-white illustrations, both full and part page. Among the best of them are: DM (15), The Miser (41), The Ass and the Little Dog (57), The Astrologer (59, dressed like Noel Coward), The Rat and the Frog (77), and The Ass and His Driver (78). Many especially of the full-page black-and-white illustrations make great use of the open undefined space around the figures; in this respect Orr may be only one step away from Calder. The five or six texts I have checked have all come verbatim from either Dalkeith or James. Note the additions to and variations from traditional stories: The hare lies down and says If that slow-coach passes, I shall see him and easily catch him up again before she falls asleep (18). A doe (not a fox or a group) argues with the lioness about children and says that she bears only one or two in a lifetime (38). The shepherd boy cries Wolf! from time to time (42). Orr's work is presented at five places in Ash and Higton, but he is not mentioned at all in Bodemann or Hobbs.

Identifier

en_US 3439 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78813

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd.

en_US Edinburgh

Subject

en_US PZ8.2 .A254 1927b See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole