Item
Favourite Fables and Stories About Animals, containing: The Favourite Book of Fables and Favourite Stories about Animals
- Title
- en_US Favourite Fables and Stories About Animals, containing: The Favourite Book of Fables and Favourite Stories about Animals
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- Creator
- en_US No Author See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Weir, Harrison
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:12:14Z
- en_US 2002-02
- en_US 1894
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:12:14Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1894
- Abstract
- en_US The first of the two books combined here I have already had. It is a lovely little book of 117 fables with a mix of illustrators and illustration styles. As I write there, I think I can detect four different styles and, presumably, sources. (1) The sharpest and best is a set of mid-sized rectangular engravings by W. Small (e.g., 17 and 25). (2) The largest occupy a full page, broken in some way by the presence of text (e.g., 13 and 57). (3) Next in size comes a set of large squares (59 and 75). Either of these last two categories may be by or from Weir. (4) The smallest rectangles seem to be a poor man's Bewick (11 and 20). I wish I could place the source of the ass's sprawl on 49. See my comment there on the Weir illustration of TB on 73. The second volume of longer animal stories has the same variety of illustration styles.
- Identifier
- en_US 4419 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Thomas Nelson and Sons
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.2.F386 1894 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
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books