Item
Fables for the Frivolous (With Apologies to La Fontaine)
- Title
- en_US Fables for the Frivolous (With Apologies to La Fontaine)
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Creator
- en_US Carryl, Guy Wetmore See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Newell, Peter
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:30:46Z
- en_US 1987-08
- en_US 1899
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:30:46Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1899
- Abstract
- en_US A real find. Maybe the best wit goes into the titles, like The Precipitate Cock and the Unappreciated Pearl. The wit in the rhyming texts sometimes gets lost in particulars unknown to us. The Confiding Peasant and the Maladroit Bear may be the funniest. The five illustrations are only satisfactory, and the frontispiece is missing in the Delavan 1899 printing. It is present in the somewhat stained but otherwise good Bucklin 1899 printing. It is also present in the water-stained extra from 1904. I will keep all three copies in the collection.
- Identifier
- en_US 3351 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Harper & Brothers Publishers
- en_US New York, NY
- Subject
- en_US PS1260.C7 F3 1899 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
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books