The Aesop for Children

Title

en_US The Aesop for Children

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Valdemar Paulsen (NA)

Creator

en_US Paulsen, Valdemar See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Winter, Milo

Date

2016-12-01T20:16:39Z

en_US 2016-06

en_US 1919

Date Available

2016-12-01T20:16:39Z

Date Issued

en_US 1919

Abstract

en_US We have already in the collection four copies of the first edition of this book. This copy I will list under its own ID number. I believe that it may be the earliest. It has white rather than gold printing on its spine and the simplest marking for Rand McNally at the base of the spine. It has no small number in the lower right of the verso of the title-page. Three of the others have C-20, C-24, and C-24. The other copy without a small number has larger lettering at the bottom of the spine and is in poorer condition. The present is perhaps the cleanest copy I have of these various first editions. As I wrote under the common number for those other four copies, this is a green covered book with 146 fables on 112 pages. All the illustrations are colored. In 1997, I made a closer study of this edition's texts, which the later compilation, The Real Picture Book (1929), admits to having been done by Valdemar Paulsen. They have a steady eye on correct children's behavior. The stories' actions are carefully motivated, sometimes even over-motivated. In fact, the stories have a tendency to overkill. There are good statements from the characters, made to themselves when talk with others would be inappropriate. There are some double morals. I could find no obvious source for the tellings.

Identifier

en_US 10988 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/107718

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Rand McNally

en_US Chicago, IL

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.A254Win 1919 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

en_US Digitized book, complete (PDF) See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole