Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

en_US The Dandelion Classics for Children

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First edition

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Perkins, Lucy Fitch

Date

2016-01-25T15:24:14Z

en_US 1991-11

en_US 1908

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:24:14Z

Date Issued

en_US 1908

Abstract

en_US A beautiful traditional Aesop that I had never had in my hand before. Excellent condition. Maybe 250 fables printed very nicely two or three to the page with no runovers. The brief versions may sometimes evidence a lack of care, and the morals are quite general. There are twelve simple but appealing full-page colored illustrations; the best of them are The Old Woman and the Doctor (24), The Old Woman's Maids (66), and MM (84). Almost all the full-page illustrations are of human events. The cover is beautifully color-engraved, and there is nice black-and-white art work around the title pages. The best of these is FS on xi. AI at front. Of the two milkmaid-cover copies, that from the Book House is lacking the frontispiece, title-page (with publication information on the back), list of illustrations, introduction, and the illustration facing 84. It has one loose illustration (facing 66) and some crayoning on 9. Otherwise it is in good condition. That from Greg Williams is missing the frontispiece and four other illustrations and is more generally in poor condition.

Identifier

en_US 1133 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/75918

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Frederick A. Stokes Company

en_US New York, NY

Subject

en_US PA3855 .E5 1908 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

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

Type

en_US Book, Whole