Aesop Dress'd or a Collection of Fables Writ in Familiar Verse

Title

en_US Aesop Dress'd or a Collection of Fables Writ in Familiar Verse

Description

en_US Bernard Mandeville

Creator

en_US Mandeville, Bernard See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Shea, John S. (Essayist)

Date

2016-01-25T20:10:47Z

en_US 2011-12

en_US 2011

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:10:47Z

Date Issued

en_US 2011

Abstract

en_US The original book of this title was published by Lock's-Head in London in 1704. I have a reprint of that edition by The Augustan Reprint Society (Publication Number 120) at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA. That reprint was done in 1966. There is also a disc of this collection circulating these days. As I wrote of the Augustan Reprint, the book contains thirty-eight fables, almost all from LaFontaine, done in couplets apparently based on the rhythms of Samuel Butler. They move along swiftly enough. LaFontaine is clearly behind this work. This book is a reproduction of that book, printed on demand. Like other printed on demand books, it lacks illustrations and a modicum of respect for verse. The scanning machine jams poetry lines together as though they were prose. Apparently no one at Dunda Books checks to see if the product is at all a representation of the original. Here it is not. Neither this book nor the website for Dunda Books seems to give a place where the press exists. 84 pages. There is a familiar colored woodcut on the cover.

Identifier

en_US 9781466359147

en_US 7612 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82874

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Dunda Books

en_US Lexington, KY

Subject

en_US PR3545.M6 A65 2011 See all items with this value

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole