Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First edition?

en_US V.S. Vernon Jones

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Rackham, Arthur

en_US Chesterton, G.K. (essayist)

Date

2016-01-25T15:23:50Z

en_US 1991-09

en_US 1912

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:23:50Z

Date Issued

en_US 1912

Abstract

en_US T of C and list of illustrations. Both the colored and black-and-white illustrations are very well done. The colored illustrations come alive in this early edition, e.g., The Crab and His Mother, The Blackamoor, 2P, Venus and the Cat, and The Gnat and the Lion. I am thrilled at last to have a good edition of this overly reproduced book! Now in 1996 I have gone through the versions thoroughly. This book is plentiful, offering 284 fables. Jones seems to have developed his versions very largely by adopting James' stories. This edition and at least some of my reprints have in The Kid and the Wolf on 152 a typo whereby the gods gave chase to the wolf, when clearly dogs is asked for by the story. Jones offers good versions, often supplying narrative connectives left out in ancient versions. He explicitates emotions helpful to understanding the events. He is faithful to the tradition. I do not find much variation from the Greek sources or much that looks like innovation. These texts are used in Yap Yong Cotterell's The Illustrated Book of World Fables (1979), in Anno's Aesop, and in the Penguin Little 60s series. The 1919 impression continues to use titled slipsheets for each full-page colored insert.

Identifier

en_US 1053 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/75839

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US London: William Heinemann/NY: Doubleday, Page, and Co.

en_US London/NY

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 V47 1912a See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

en_US Digitized book, complete (PDF) See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole