Fables in Verse

Title

en_US Fables in Verse

en_US Young America Juvenile Library

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T16:29:57Z

en_US 1998-07

en_US 1855

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:29:57Z

Date Issued

en_US 1855

Abstract

en_US This book gives me the feeling that I have seen it before, probably under other names. Its squarish page-format and short verse fables mark it off from other books. Each of the thirty-two fables (128 pages) receives one or two illustrations; many tail-pieces seem only vaguely related to the fable. The tellings seem to me at first glance to place it squarely in the tradition of Phaedrus. In many ways it is a classic book, even in its choice of fables to present. They include: WL, FK, BF, DS, LS, WC, The Ass & Lion, OF, FS, The Fly & Horse, DW, CJ, The Man & Serpent, 2P, The Lark & Her Young, The Crab & Her Daughter, The Mountain in Labor, SW, The Satyr & Traveller, Hercules & the Carter, GA, The Ape & Her Young, DLS, DM, The Stag & Vine, The Mischievous Dog, The Boys & the Frogs, The Farmer & His Sons, The Old Woman & Her Maids, The Eagle & Crow, and The Ass & Master. The printer and editor made a mistake: Fables 15-17 come after Fable 19, though the pagination works correctly. It was not easy to get the Renaissance owner to agree to my buying just two books from a larger set. Now a year later, I still see the remaining books remarked in price sitting on the shelf. Inscribed in 1857.

Identifier

en_US 3143 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78546

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Brown, Bazin, & Co

en_US Boston

Subject

en_US PZ8.2 .F33 1855 See all items with this value

Type

Book, Whole