Item
The Fables of La Fontaine: A Selection for Little Children
- Title
- en_US The Fables of La Fontaine: A Selection for Little Children
- en_US Books for the Bairns #45
- Description
- en_US W.T. Stead
- Creator
- en_US La Fontaine, Jean de See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Fanu, Brinsley Le
- Date
- 2016-01-25T20:35:41Z
- en_US 2013-03
- en_US 1897?
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T20:35:41Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1897
- Abstract
- en_US Books for Bairns volumes of Aesop's Fables were published first in the 1890's by Review of Reviews and then again in 1926 by Ernest Benn. This pamphlet seems to belong to the former group. I have at least six books belonging to Books for Bairns but it is difficult to piece together their relationship to each other. I have, for example, French Fables in Rhyme as Number 272 in Books for Bairns published for threepence by Stead's Publishing House in 1919. The present pamphlet has the fables presented there and adds five others: TB; The Camel and the Floating Sticks; The Man and the Wooden God; The Oyster and the Litigants; and The Heron. The texts are the same (from Elizur Wright) as are the le Fanu illustrations. There are several pages here of advertisements before and after the sixty pages of fables. An early advertisement for Van Houten's cocoa quotes The Lancet from July 3, 1897. There is a terminus post quem. As I wrote there, I enjoy particularly le Fanu's series of four images for The Lark and Her Young Ones (38-41). There is a good series of three sketches for The Ass and the Dog; in fact one of them appears on the cover. The illustrations are better rendered here because they are more distinct. This pamphlet had a price of one penny.
- Identifier
- en_US 8887 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Review of Reviews Office
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.2.L134 Fab 1897 See all items with this value
- en_US Jean de La Fontaine 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