Item
Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists. In Three Books
- Title
- en_US Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists. In Three Books
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US First edition
- en_US R. and J. Dodsley
- Creator
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Wale, Samuel
- en_US The Life of Esop, de Meziriac; Essay on Fable, Dod
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:49:33Z
- en_US 1998-06
- en_US 1761
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:49:33Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1761
- Abstract
- en_US Here is Bodemann #145.1, with the description fulfilled in every detail. I have been so delighted to find a Dodsley first edition. I had worked with Dodsley at length at the Pierpont Morgan during my sabbatical. The book is in excellent condition. I think I had hoped for more in the original illustrations, presented as a set of from four to (more usually) twelve medallion-like circles on one page. They are simple and straightforward. In the size in which they are presented, there is not much room for detail or nuance. They show up much better on Hobbs' end-papers, since they are so much larger. My Rose's copy is beautifully bound in leather with 1671 at the base of the spine. There are of course here three books, respectively of ancient, modern, and original fables (54, 53, and 52 fables respectively). There is an introductory illustration and a closing vignette for each book. After all three books, there is a comprehensive listing of morals, deliberately kept separate from the stories themselves. Since there is neither a T of C nor an AI, this index also serves as the best way of finding a fable's place within the collection. For my comments on the text of Dodsley, see Crukshank's edition of 1798.
- Identifier
- en_US 3552 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Printed by John Baskerville for R. and J. Dodsley,
- en_US Birmingham England
- Subject
- en_US PN982 .D6 1761 See all items with this value
- en_US Aesop and others See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books