Fables d'Ésope

Title

en_US Fables d'Ésope

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US First edition?

en_US Versified by Mrs. Clara Doty Bates Accompanied by The Standard Translations from the Original Greek

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Orr, Jack

Date

2016-01-25T16:48:57Z

en_US 2000-04

en_US 1933

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:48:57Z

Date Issued

en_US 1933

Abstract

en_US This book seems to be one-quarter the size of the English version of Orr's book, for which I have guessed a date of 1927, but it is really two-thirds of its size, having 60 pages to the 96 pages of the English edition. The paper is thinner here. But almost all of my favorite Orr illustrations are among those chosen. The four colored illustrations are beautifully presented here and better preserved than in my English edition. I still favor The Eagle and the Crow (24), TB (32), and The Thieves and the Cock (52). Among the black-and-white illustrations, I still enjoy The Miser (17), The Ass and the Little Dog (31), The Astrologer (39), The Ass and His Driver (43), and The Rat and the Frog (51). See my comments on the English edition of the same year. The text peculiarity that I noted there in TH has been lost (10). The boy cries Wolf! parfois (36). The fable about the doe and the lioness is one of those dropped. It is unusual for a French book to have a T of C where it is here, at the book's front; might the English publisher help to explain that unusual placement?

Identifier

en_US 3440 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78814

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Nelson Éditeurs,

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PA3855.F5 1933 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole