Fables of Aesop and Others. Translated into English. With Instructive Applications and a Print before each Fable

Title

en_US Fables of Aesop and Others. Translated into English. With Instructive Applications and a Print before each Fable

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: und

en_US First Wilmington Edition

en_US By Samuel Croxall

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T16:49:36Z

en_US 2000-02

en_US 1802

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:49:36Z

Date Issued

en_US 1802

Abstract

en_US For a start on this little book, consult my comments on the eleventh edition (1778) and seventeenth edition (1805) of Croxall's original work of 1722. This very early American Croxall (perhaps the first US edition?) falls between the two of them. It has the typical Croxall elements of a preface (with British references changed to American) and AI before the 196 fables and an index of qualities after it. If there was a frontispiece, it is gone. The book is in poor condition, but easy to cherish nonetheless. It is missing 37-40 and parts of 313-16. The curious thing about the illustrations here is that they are ovals without rectangles around them. I have not seen that before for Croxall; Kirkall established oval within a rectangle as the standard way to illustrate a Croxall fable, and editions contemporary with this one (e.g., those in 1804 and 1807 from Mozley) follow the Kirkall pattern even as they create inferior copies of his pictures. Here the illustrations strike one as simple but strong. The Old Woman and Her Maids on 235 is done simply as a rectangle without any oval. Both covers are separated, and the book is falling apart. This book finishes the fables on 316. The other four copies I have mentioned all finish on 329.

Identifier

en_US 3563 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78928

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Peter Brynberg

en_US Wilmington, DL

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 C7 1802 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop and others See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole