Item
Fables of Aesop and Others Translated into English with Instructive Applications and One Hundred and Ninety-Eight Illustrations
- Title
- en_US Fables of Aesop and Others Translated into English with Instructive Applications and One Hundred and Ninety-Eight Illustrations
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US By Samuel Croxall
- Creator
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:15:23Z
- en_US 1996-01
- en_US 1850
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:15:23Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1850
- Abstract
- en_US Many of the text-plates and apparently all the engravings here are identical with those in my 1863 Burnham edition. See my comments there. The margins are cropped closer here. The title-page and perhaps a few other pages (certainly 25) have been reset. The book is rebound in library buckram. Some foxing and staining; there is a tear on 49. Since there is a frontispiece and apparently one illustration per fable, and since there are 196 fables, am I right in believing that one fable must have a second illustration? I have not found it yet. The spine of this book reads FABLEL. After reviewing a number of Croxall editions in 2000, I find this a strong book. It follows the Croxall traditions: frontispiece of the poet writing with Aesop over his shoulder, the strong patriotic preface, the AI before the fables, and the Index of virtues and qualities after the fables. Like other American editions, it drops the dedication to Lord Halifax and changes Britain and British youth to America and charming youth in the preface. Though this edition seems to reproduce my Derby & Jackson edition of 1845, I find the illustrations much more distinct and original. This book makes me look on that book's illustrations as copies.
- Identifier
- en_US 2389 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Thomas Cowperthwaite & Co.
- en_US Philadelphia, PA
- Subject
- en_US PA3855.E5 C7 1850 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