Aesopi Fabulae I

Title

en_US Aesopi Fabulae I

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Language note: Japanese

en_US Original language: fre

en_US Kazuo Watanabe

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Oberländer, Gerhard

Date

2016-01-25T16:18:17Z

en_US 1996-07

en_US 1982

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:18:17Z

Date Issued

en_US 1982

Abstract

en_US This pair of volumes is among the most valuable books in the collection. Together the two books present a broad study of Aesopic fable with a wealth of illustration. The boxes and dust jackets exhibit a large, vivid, comprehensive illustration by Oberländer pulling together characters from a number of fables here against a blue background (see his work, also from 1982, in my Der Fuchs und die Trauben und sieben weitere Fabeln des Aesop). The inside of the dust jacket shows a photograph of a kylix of Aesop and a fox. The endpapers show Aesopic stamps from Hungary, San Marino, Poland, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Burundi, and Syria. The book's first pages are four full-page colorful paintings by Oberländer: FG, SW, The Wolf and the Kid, and DS. A T of C gives Western numbers and page numbers for 186 fables. Stars above twenty-four of the T of C listings apparently indicate outstanding stories. The stories are decorated with a variety of small early illustrations, among which I recognize many from Steinhöwel and Tuppo. My favorite illustration is on 216: the cook grasping a dog by the tail throws him out the window. At 225 there is a life of Aesop, decorated with Steinhöwel's woodcuts. Do not miss the libation bottle on 257, the cup on 280, and the pot on 294: they apparently make some direct reference to the life of Aesop. There is even a ribbon to mark your place!

Identifier

en_US 2550 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78089

Language

en_US jpn

Publisher

en_US Shogakukan Company

en_US Tokyo

Subject

en_US PA3855.J3.W38 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