Fables of Aesop and Others. Newly done into English. With an Application to each Fable. Illustrated with Cutts.

Title

en_US Fables of Aesop and Others. Newly done into English. With an Application to each Fable. Illustrated with Cutts.

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Croxall

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Kirkall, Elisha

Date

2016-01-25T16:50:55Z

en_US 2000-10

en_US 1722

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:50:55Z

Date Issued

en_US 1722

Abstract

en_US At last I have arrived at a first edition of Croxall! And it is a good copy. Bodemann #107.1. Croxall is first mentioned at the end of the dedication to Halifax. At the beginning, what is labeled The Contents of the Fables is an AI. Use that to find a fable by one of its characters. This is a larger-format book (5¼ x 8¼) than any of its later editions or imitations that I know of. The Kirkall illustrations are the same size as, e.g., in the 1731 Third Edition, but the print and the margins are both larger here. It is such a pleasure to see the engravings distinct! Some that are especially clear and strong include FC (16), TMCM (63), GGE (101), The Tunny and the Dolphin (111), FWT (115), The Thief and the Dog (185), The Thief and the Boy (189), DM (223), The Envious Man and the Covetous (232), WSC (275), The Fox in the Well (285), and The Ape and Her Two Young Ones (316). I believe that I do not have Kirkall's frontispiece -- a statue of of Aesop proclaiming panta mythos -- in any other edition. Bodemann comments that about half of the visual motifs are taken from Barlow. 196 fables, 344 pages. Croxall gives at the end an index especially to qualities and persons.

Identifier

en_US 3825 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79166

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts

en_US London

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 C7 1722 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop and others See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole