The Fables of Aesop [Cover: Warne's Edition of Aesop's Fables]

Title

en_US The Fables of Aesop [Cover: Warne's Edition of Aesop's Fables]

en_US National Nursery Library

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: grc

en_US Translated into English by Samuel Croxall; With new Applications, Morals, &c. by the Rev. Geo. Fyler Townsend

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Herrick, Henry Walker

Date

2016-01-25T19:50:42Z

en_US 2006-08

en_US 1875?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:50:42Z

Date Issued

en_US 1875?

Abstract

en_US I have been able to date this book to the period from 1872 to 1878, for it was during that six year period that Scribner's had the title Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong, which is listed on the first of the title-pages here. This little (about 4½ x 6) book contains one hundred numbered fables on 152 pages. The fable texts come from Croxall. Townsend is apparently the person who wrote new morals and applications to substitute for Croxall's long applications. The illustrations come from Herrick, who seems to be nowhere acknowledged for them. The cover is unusual for its color. It shows the farmer and his son getting ready for harvesting. The same picture appears on the title-page, just across from the colored frontispiece labeled The Lark and Her Little Ones. The three illustrations have the feel of old transfers. I have the sense that I have run into them before, but I cannot place them. The presence of two title-pages makes the book a little suspect. Scribner's seems to have worked hard to import books. This import may have undergone simple addition rather than substitution. There is an opening T of C.

Identifier

en_US 6130 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81536

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Frederick Warne and Co./Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong

en_US London

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 C7 1875 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