The Fables of Aesop

Title

en_US The Fables of Aesop

en_US The Chandos Classics

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Translated into English by Samuel Croxall, D.D. and Sir Roger L'Estrange. With applications, morals, etc. by the Rev. G. F. Townsend and L. Valentine

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Herrick, Henry Walker

Date

2016-01-25T16:49:53Z

en_US 98

en_US 1868?

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:49:53Z

Date Issued

en_US 1868

Abstract

en_US At last I have found a copy--and now two--of an edition I found recommended early in my hunt for fable books. This book may be a good deal later than the date I am guessing for it. Compare with three other books, all by Warne, which I have listed under 1866?, 1867?, and 1869? This edition has a brown cloth cover with black printing and some gold print background only on the spine. It does not say New Edition on the title-page. It lists an address for Warne. It gives the printer (R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor) on the reverse of the title-page. It has no page between the Life of Aesop and the first fable. The advertisements on the front endpapers claim 99 volumes in the Chandos Classics Series. The big learning occasioned by examining this book and the copy listed under 1869? is that the illustrations here are by Herrick! They are exactly the same as those in his 1865 edition. That book claims 111 illustrations, perhaps including the illustration on the title-page, which does not occur here. The typeface is excellent in this printing. Compare it with the deteriorating typeface in the 1869? edition. See my notes on the other volumes, especially on the possible roles played by L'Estrange and Valentine. This volume of course lacks Croxall's long applications, which Herrick includes, though perhaps not always complete.

Identifier

en_US 3608 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78970

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Frederick Warne and Co.

en_US London

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 C7 1868 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