The Fables of Aesop with a Life of the Author.

Title

en_US The Fables of Aesop with a Life of the Author.

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First edition

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Herrick, Henry Walker

Date

2016-01-25T16:15:24Z

en_US 1996-03

en_US 1865

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:15:24Z

Date Issued

en_US 1865

Abstract

en_US At last I have a first edition of Herrick! And it is in excellent condition! The plates seem identical with those in my three 1865/95? copies. The illustrations come off here as much livelier and more dramatic. Take as examples The Eagle and the Fox (61), The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat (112), and The Young Man and His Cat (218). Still, I find that Herrick does not rank for me as one of the top Aesopic illustrators. There is one illustration per story (there are 110 fables in all) and a frontispiece. The texts, I have learned in reviewing this during 1996, are Croxall's, though apparently only a selection of his work. Enjoy The Hunted Beaver (86) with its tactful and mysterious reference to a certain part of the beaver. There is a T of C at the beginning. The blue cover has a beautiful gold-embossed fox-head at its center.

Identifier

en_US 2391 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77948

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US NY: Hurd and Houghton. (Boston: E.P. Dutton and Company.)

en_US New York, NY

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 1865a 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