Item
Fables Original and Selected by the Most Esteemed European and Oriental Authors
- Title
- en_US Fables Original and Selected by the Most Esteemed European and Oriental Authors
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US G. Moir Bussey
- Creator
- en_US Bussey, George Moir See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Grandville, J.J.
- en_US Bussey, G. Moir (Essayist)
- Date
- 2016-01-25T15:24:18Z
- en_US 1991-11
- en_US 1842
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T15:24:18Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1842
- Abstract
- en_US One of the gems in my collection! 497 fables from some thirty-two fabulists, named with their respective fables in the AI on xxix. Forty-eight magnificent hand-colored plates; the list of full-page illustrations (xxxiv) counts forty-nine, but the presentation plate is uncolored. The versions include prose and verse, revised from their sources for the use of children. LaFontaine is taken chiefly from Matthews (1820), Yriarte from Belfour; all other translations are original. New to me and good: The Schoolboy, the Pedant, and the Gardener (169). The very best plates depict the miser and the treasure (145), the dog with cropped ears (201), the acorn and the gourd (217), the viper and the file (225), the frogs demanding a king (273), and the mountain in labor (297, Aesop). Lindseth lists an edition of this book from Charles Tilt in London in 1839. Notice the adaptation of Grandville's frontispiece to include Aesop, etc. The arrangement in four books seems haphazard. A real treasure for its versions and especially for its plates.
- Identifier
- en_US 1146 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Willoughby & Co.
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PN982 .B8 1842a 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