The Fables of La Fontaine

Title

en_US The Fables of La Fontaine

en_US Bohn's Standard Library

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: fre

en_US Elizur Wright

Creator

en_US Gibbs, J.W.M. See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T15:52:32Z

en_US 1992-07

en_US 1896

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:52:32Z

Date Issued

en_US 1881

Abstract

en_US This standard-seeming handy-sized edition of the Wright translation of LaFontaine without illustrations turns out to have a wonderful preface dated in 1881. The preface traces the history of Wright's translation. After six quick editions in Boston (1841-3) and one small-type edition in London at the same time, there had been nothing till this edition in 1881. (I have an 1860 Derby and Jackson edition by Wright. Its existence seems to contradict the preface's claim. I also have the small four-volume set done in 1881 by Estes and Lauriat.) In fact, there had been only one other translator of the complete LaFontaine's fables into English during that time (Thornbury), and the preface finds that translation inferior to Wright's. This edition embodies the corrections but not the expurgations of the sixth edition (see my 1843 copy); in fact the preface presents the five fables that Wright, under some duress, substituted for the expurgated LaFontaine fables in that sixth edition. The preface continues with a nice account of Wright's life. Notes with the fables. AI and forty pages of advertisements for Bell's books at the back. Originally owned by the University of California Medical School in San Francisco.

Identifier

en_US 1264 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76842

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US George Bell and Sons

en_US London

Subject

en_US PQ1811.E3 W6 1896 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