Item
Aesopic
- Title
- en_US Aesopic
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Signed by Leonard Baskin
- en_US Anthony Hecht
- Creator
- en_US Bewick, Thomas See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Bewick, Thomas
- en_US Hofer, Philip (Essayist)
- Date
- 2016-01-25T15:52:29Z
- en_US 1992-07
- en_US 1967
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T15:52:29Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1967
- Abstract
- en_US A magnificent little book. Next to Bewick's own work, these are the best representations of Bewick's work that I have. They are from the 1776/1784 first editions of Select Fables. Hofer writes aptly of them in the afterword: they have a lively freshness that some of his later, more technically proficient, and labored, engraved woodblocks lack. Among the best of the illustrations are DS, CP, and FC. Hecht's two-liners are lively but often tangential; among the better are There's no Tomorrow, Two Young Men and the Cook, GA, FC, and The Fox and the Buddha. Easily worth the price. The extra copy from Z-rosity seems to be a printer's reject from the limited run of one hundred.
- Identifier
- en_US 1254 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Gehenna Press
- en_US Northampton, MA
- Subject
- en_US PS3515.E178 A4 1967 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