Aesop Junior in America

Title

en_US Aesop Junior in America

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

Creator

en_US Greaves, Alexander (supposed author) See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T16:19:06Z

en_US 2002-11

en_US 1834

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:19:06Z

Date Issued

en_US 1834

Abstract

en_US I have seen this book described and even illustrated somewhere, and now I cannot find it. I have looked in Schiller, Quinnam, Ashby, Hobbs, Fabula Docet, and McKendrick. I do find it in my favorite private collector, who notes the frontispiece etching of George Washington and the etched title page. He also mentions briefly the second thing that struck me about the book-after the title-page engraving of an American Aesop among the animals-and that is the length of the last fable. The Horse Resolved to be Free is thirty-three pages long, twenty-four of them given to the moral! Generally the book seems to be sustainedly preachy. Even the short fables I tried present almost no action. For example, the crocodile's tears in XIV are called hypocritical by the vulture about to eat the crocodile's eggs (22-23). So? The spine of both copies is weak. The good copy has just the first page of the T of C (covering the first fifty-one of the seventy-seven fables). The second copy lacks both the T of C and the first twelve pages. I will keep both copies in the collection. I have not seen this book except in the Library of Congress, where I was able to ascertain quickly that it does not contain traditional Aesopic material.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier 281.1

en_US 2759 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78293

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Printed for the author by Mahlon Day

en_US NY

Subject

en_US PN982.A3 1834 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole