Item
Aesop's Fables.
- Title
- en_US Aesop's Fables.
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US J.B. Rundell, NA
- Creator
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:18:54Z
- en_US 1996-08
- en_US 1920?
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:18:54Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1920?
- Abstract
- en_US This little book brims with questions. First, do I not recognize these covers of a boy and girl, respectively, reading? Next, how does this text expand the usual set of texts derived from Rundell (sometimes labelled J.B.R.) from its usual 401 to the 426 fables here? Comparing the book with others in the tradition is difficult because a page is missing, and I believe it (143-44) is an especially important one, because it begins the second part of the book. It includes, e.g., the beginning of The Hare and Many Friends. Even the book's subtitle is slightly different here, perhaps since there are no illustrations, for the usual subtitle is With texts based chiefly upon.... One work that seems new by comparison with others in this tradition is Hodge and Raven (171) in verse. T of C at the front, numbered in tens by a previous owner. There is a page of advertisements for Sears' books at the back. Travel and little, and you will discover some strange things.…
- Identifier
- en_US 2708 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US J.H. Sears & Company
- en_US NY
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.2 .A254 1920b 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