Zigzag Fables

Title

en_US Zigzag Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

Creator

en_US Shepherd, J.A. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Shepherd, J.A.

Date

2016-01-25T20:10:29Z

en_US 2011-12

en_US 1897

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:10:29Z

Date Issued

en_US 1897

Abstract

en_US I had found an inferior copy of this delightful book from Abbey Antiquarian in 1998. Here is a superior copy, though still with flaws, particularly in the slip-pages between illustrations. Thus I will keep both in the collection. As I wrote then, this landscape volume has excellent chromolithography. Are these stories meant to be society-critical parodies? In CJ, the cock tells his wives that what he has found is nothing but jewels, no good at all. The ape condemns the wolf to pay costs for bringing a false charge and tells the fox that he is lucky to escape hanging as a thief--and he takes the disputed pullet as his fee. In some, like The Two Crabs and The Lion in Love, I do not see any parody; they look to me like the straight fable, but I may be missing something. New to me are two stories. One concerns a parrot getting angered over a card game and ending in court. The other shows the ostrich family rejected by both birds and beasts. The Hermit and the Bear makes a rousing finale. Here the hermit lives to get his revenge. I just love the colored pictures in this work! Pictorial boards for covers.

Identifier

en_US 7553 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82818

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Gardner Darton & Co.,

en_US London

Subject

en_US NC978.5.S54 A3 1897 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