Item
Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists. In Three Books
- Title
- en_US Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists. In Three Books
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US A new edition
- en_US By R. Dodsley
- Creator
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T20:10:20Z
- en_US 2011-09
- en_US 1811
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T20:10:20Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1811
- Abstract
- en_US This is a bare-bones American publication of Dodsley's three books of fables. That is, there are no introductory chapters or final tables or appendices. The paper is quite fragile. The illustrations, one to a fable, are uniform in size and all framed by some printer's design. Many of them here are quite indistinct; they may have been that way from the beginning. This edition of Dodsley might best be compared with the American edition of the Crukshanks in 1798. One should also compare with the British editions of 1780? and 1812, which follow the same pattern of small quadriform single illustrations for each fable. Dodsley's original with its pages of several medallions was in 1761. I also have a Dublin edition of 1763. We may end up with quite an array of Dodsley editions from the British colonies! Did Carey's firm go on under partnership with others in the coming generations?
- Identifier
- en_US 7529 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Printed for Mathew Carey
- en_US Philadelphia, PA
- Subject
- en_US PN982 .D6 1811 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
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books