The Fables of Aesop now newly imprinted by Vincent Torre

Title

en_US The Fables of Aesop now newly imprinted by Vincent Torre

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US #33 of 50

en_US By Tom Paxton

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Torre, Vincent

Date

2016-01-25T19:27:50Z

en_US 2003-02

en_US 1952

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:27:50Z

Date Issued

en_US 1952

Abstract

en_US Gradually I am coming to the end of finding--and affording--the various fable works of Vincent Torre. This is another beautiful piece. This book is a surprisingly short 40 pages long and contains twenty fables. The decoration was cut in linoleum, as the colophon reports. The brown initials were designed by Howard Glasser and cut in lineoleum by the printer. Besides the initials, there is a lovely brown printer's design repeated at the end of each fable. Each text reduces the print from 24 point to 18 point after four lines. Texts are in italics, but the morals are not. Torre's illustrations are simple and bold. Only the right-hand pages are printed. The Rat and the Frog here involves no cord connecting the two (16). The rat jumps on the frog's back and commands her to be off. She shakes him off in mid-water, but the hawk gets them both. In WC, the wolf utters the usual remark, but then bites off the crane's head (18)! When the jackdaw returns from the peacocks to his own kind, they peck at him harder than the peacocks had! This copy has slight water damage at the bottom of the covers, and the spine is torn at top and bottom.

Identifier

en_US 4845 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80466

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US At The Ink-Well Press

en_US S.l.

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.T58 Ae 1952 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole