Aesopische Fabeln für die Jugend

Title

en_US Aesopische Fabeln für die Jugend

Description

en_US Language note: German

en_US Nach verschiedenen Dichtern gesammlet und bearbeitet von A.G. Meissner

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:49:45Z

en_US 1998-07

en_US 1840?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:49:45Z

Date Issued

en_US 1840?

Abstract

en_US I was on my way to another bookstore when I happened across this fascinating shop full of old toys and books. Among them was this little treasure. This 352-page paperback book's binding has become bowed, and its paper wraps are disintegrating. Otherwise it seems thoroughly intact. I could not get the dealer to come down from his high price! Bodemann lists fifteen different editions in which Meissner is somehow involved, but this is not one of them. Subsequent research suggests that the book was first published in Leipzig in 1791, but I still cannot find a date for this edition. As the opening T of C makes clear, there are five books, each with thirty fables. There is also an appendix with three unillustrated fables. The T of C alone gives the source of each fable; very few seem unattributed. The framed rectangular woodcuts take close to half a page. They are quite simple. An example is Der Igel und der Maulwurf on 11. Among the liveliest is Die Knaben und die Frösche (43). A few woodcuts are signed C.F. Rudiger fecit. Most fables take two pages. Die beiden Krebse is a one-page exception (120). Die Eiche und die Weide (191) receives an unusual comment, since Meissner takes the willow and not the reed as a contrast to the oak. For Meissner, the point is not about hypocrisy and weakness but about humility and a proper sense of oneself. No fable starts on the same page as another fable. The title-page bears an illegible stamp of ownership. One suspects that this little book could tell some tales of where it has been! It has, no doubt, come through many hands…. I have no idea when it was published.

Identifier

en_US 5872 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81354

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Die Königliche Buchdruckerey

en_US Dresden

Subject

en_US PA3855.G6 M45 1840 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop et al See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole