Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

en_US The Lippincott Classics

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US From the Translations of Thomas James and George Tyler [sic] Townsend. Introduction by Angelo Patri

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Rounds, Glen

en_US Patri, Angelo (Essayist)

Date

2016-01-25T20:15:42Z

en_US 2001-01

en_US 1949

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:15:42Z

Date Issued

en_US 1949

Abstract

en_US There is a copy of this book in better condition already in the collection. I add this book to the collection because of its two differences. First, it uses a different kind of paper, whiter and of a different texture. Secondly, the dust-jacket has changed, and specifically in its back cover, which now lists not seven but eight Lippincott Classics. Black Beauty, first on this list, is the added item. As I wrote of that other copy, I learned of this book somewhere very soon after I started collecting, and I put it on many of my first want lists, but never had the book in my hand, not even in libraries. Cummings' new store in Dinkytown seemed an unlikely place for a fable book, but I gave it a short try when I had the chance. The book almost fell off the shelf into my waiting hands! How wonderful to find it at last! There are 219 fables here. Notice that the title-page mistakes George Fyler Townsend's name, but this is not the first edition to do so. Perhaps they took the text from the David McKay edition that I have listed under 1885?/1910? or from the Caldwell edition under 1885?/1900? Rounds' work looks almost as though it were done with crayons or colored pencils. Among the best of his work I would cite The Mice and the Weasels (36-37), The Dancing Camel (97), WC (100, and compare and contrast it with the dust jacket's version), and The Ass and the Lap-Dog (153). The typesetter makes the pages here very attractive by the use of cyan and magenta for initial words of stories. This is a very sturdy book. There is an AI at the front. Of course it would be fun to go through this book for a sense of when the author chooses James and when Townsend.

Identifier

en_US 8188 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83428

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US J.B. Lippincott Company

en_US Philadelphia, PA

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 J36 1949 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