Item
Aesop's Fables
- Title
- en_US Aesop's Fables
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US After Thomas James and George Tyler sic Townsend
- Creator
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Grandville, J.J.
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:06:57Z
- en_US 1993-07
- en_US 1982
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:06:57Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1982
- Abstract
- en_US A pretty but, I would say, misguided book. The thirty or so engravings from Grandville are very well presented. The putting together of Grandville, who illustrated LaFontaine, with two translators of Aesop has its problems. The problems emerge, for example, on 83-4 when the textual fable has people and then dogs interrupting the mice at dinner, but Grandville's illustration shows a cat coming through the door. What is that illustration on 43? Does it have anything to do with the facing story of the fox and lion? For all the care that goes into a book like this, someone should have checked the name of the translator! The only other translators I know who have attempted to use Grandville's work for Aesop are Rees and Zipes. T of C at the beginning, AI on 191.
- Identifier
- en_US 1649 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US The Franklin Library
- en_US Franklin Center, PA
- Subject
- en_US PA3855.E5 J36 1982 See all items with this value
- en_US Aesop 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