Item
Aesop's Fables: A Selection
- Title
- en_US Aesop's Fables: A Selection
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Original language: grc
- en_US Limited edition of 200
- en_US Translated from the Greek by Ian Warren
- Creator
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US With Engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn
- Date
- 2016-01-25T19:03:13Z
- en_US 2001-08
- en_US 1982
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T19:03:13Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1982
- Abstract
- en_US I got very lucky as I ducked into an unlikely shop featuring mostly new books and publishers' remainders. A bookcase of older and used books included two treasures. (The other is a pamphlet from Verona by Giovanni Mardersteig in 1973). This book was among several works by Weissenborn, perhaps a collection by a fan. The verse presentations by Warren are very good. They get the fables right, as when he has the woodcutter say one thing but nod, wink, and gesture to where the fox is hiding in The Fox and the Woodcutter. The twenty-two engravings printed directly from Weissenborn's blocks are clear and vigorous. Among the best, I believe, are Useful Labour, The Ass and the Ciccadas, 2P, and The Eagle and the Terrapin. This is a very sturdy booklet.
- Identifier
- en_US 0902015168
- en_US 4248 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US The Acorn Press
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PA3855.E5 W28 1982 See all items with this value
- en_US Aesop See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- Pamphlet
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books