Aesop's Fables with Upwards of One Hundred and Fifty Emblematical Devices

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables with Upwards of One Hundred and Fifty Emblematical Devices

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Text unacknowledged and preface by Samuel Croxall

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Croxall (Essayist)

Date

2016-01-25T19:12:31Z

en_US 2002-02

en_US 1849

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:12:31Z

Date Issued

en_US 1849

Abstract

en_US This very little book (3¼ x 4½) reproduces almost exactly my 1839 and 1841 editions from Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company, also in Philadelphia. It thus has 228 pages. This book has even smaller margins than those, and so it can--barely--contain the same printed area per page. The green cloth cover has a pleasant gold design of the owner ready to beat the ass in DLS, while the spine has a title and gold floral pattern. The back cover seems to have been embossed without gold with the same DLS design. I repeat some of my pertinent comments from the 1839 edition. One hundred and ten fables, each with a simple woodcut and many with a (sometimes generic) tailpiece. Apparently the first paragraph of Croxall's Application is taken in each case. T of C at the front. Thomas Beckman writes that the illustrations are probably by James Poupard, and they were initially used in a Philadelphia edition of 1802 by R. Aitkin. I wrote earlier about the 1839 edition that the illustrations had been copied or reproduced for an 1842 edition by John Locken in Philadelphia. Well, in a slightly later printing, here it is!

Identifier

en_US 4468 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80137

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US John Locken

en_US Philadelphia, PA

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 C7 1849 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