Mistura Curiosa

Title

en_US Mistura Curiosa

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US F. Crucelli (J.A. Sidey)

Creator

en_US Sidey, James A. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Doyle, Charles A.

Date

2016-01-25T15:52:17Z

en_US 1992-02

en_US 1886

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:52:17Z

Date Issued

en_US 1886

Abstract

en_US A truly crazy book! Verse throughout, including plenty of romantic poetry set to well known airs. Lots of idiomatic Scots dialect, and plenteous references to curling. The illustrations are fetching but too tiny. The title page is a wonder of palindromic art on its own. The six fables elaborate their stories over several pages, with at least one illustration each. They include The Bear and the Bees (12), The Wolf and the Child (40), FG (64, with a very good illustration), The Sheep and the Crow (106, differently told: there is no reference to an eagle or lamb), TH (122, which features several young hares), and FC (162, in which the fox offers lozenges and the crow speaks at first without losing the cheese). This last fable ends with a nice pun: For to that cheese he had no right/Unless it had been left. The book's spine is unfortunately weak.

Identifier

en_US 1222 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76802

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Maclachlan and Stewart

en_US Edinburgh

Subject

en_US PR5452.S23 M5 1886 See all items with this value

en_US Collection See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole