Item
Aesop's Fables Illustrated
- Title
- en_US Aesop's Fables Illustrated
- en_US The People's Edition
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US First edition?
- Creator
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Tenniel, John
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:38:55Z
- en_US 2005-07
- en_US 1867
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:38:55Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1867
- Abstract
- en_US Here is a pleasant little surprise. Earlier, I had worked my way back through editions of 1873, 1870, and 1868. The seller had told me that the last of these was a first edition. Now here is the identical book published not by Samuel R. Wells but by Fowler and Wells, Publishers at the same address a year earlier. The book is identical with that of 1868, down to the broken typeface on the page numbers for the last two units in the beginning AI. The beginning also has a list of the fifty-five illustrations. It seems to me that what we have here are copies of Tenniel's (not Wolfe's) work. They are now often signed by the engraver (e.g., Felter, Howland, or Orr). As in the other copies, the advertisements at the back of the book are strong on phrenology. The book is in only fair condition.
- Identifier
- en_US 5574 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Fowler and Wells
- en_US New York, NY
- Subject
- en_US PA3855.E5 A37 1867 See all items with this value
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books