Fables of Aesop and others

Title

en_US Fables of Aesop and others

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: grc

en_US Samuel Croxall

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Kirkall, Elisha

Date

2016-01-22T20:09:48Z

en_US 1988-03

en_US 1863

Date Available

2016-01-22T20:09:48Z

Date Issued

en_US 1863

Abstract

en_US The engravings in the copy from Titles are especially well done. Besides the alphabetical T of C at the beginning, there is an index of subjects at the end. It refers mostly to the virtues inculcated in the longish applications. Since now in March of 1997, I have just done an exhaustive analysis of this book, let me mention here a few impressions of Croxall. Hobbs is perhaps even understated (84) when she says that the morals, indigestible and sometimes irrelevant, occupy half the book. This edition contains 196 fables, which seems to be standard for Croxall. He has two versions of DLS, one (XLII) focussed on the owner and the ears and the other (CLXXVIII) on the fox and braying. Leaf follows Croxall's versions regularly. I seem to find James following him verbatim at least once (The Bald Knight, Croxall XLVII). Croxall loves the phrase could not forbear. His long applications read like sermons and seem often to look for a sermon-starting gem to work from; on these occasions, the fable itself seems left behind. Artzybasheff used Croxall and James as his text-sources. The 1865 Herrick edition uses Croxall texts with minor corrections and updates of language.

Identifier

en_US 20 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/74642

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US T.O.H.P. Burnham

en_US Boston, MA

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 C7 1863 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