Nursery Rhymes & Fables

Title

en_US Nursery Rhymes & Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Collected & Illustrated by W.J. Morgan

Creator

en_US Morgan, Walter Jenks See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Morgan, W.J.

Date

2016-01-25T19:49:55Z

en_US 2005-09

en_US 1896?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:49:55Z

Date Issued

en_US 1896

Abstract

en_US This 64-page book is in fragile condition, but it has beautiful chromolithograph (?) illustrations! As the beginning T of C shows, there are some twenty-one nursery rhymes and eleven fables. Many pages are loose, but they all seem to be present. Colored illustrations and black-and-white alternate on pairs of pages, so that we are always looking at two pages that are colored or two that are illustrated in black-and-white. The fables start on 47-48 with FS. For these early fables, there is one picture before or after the fable's text. Thus on 50 there is a dramatic picture of the kite grasping both frog and mouse aloft--the text of that fable has just finished before we turned the page--and on 51 there is a picture of a dog crying on a bridge over a stream. Turning the page shows us why when Morgan illustrates DS and gives us a text for the fable. These are classic colored illustrations! Two of the best are FG and DM on 62 and 63, respectively. I do not know where the eBay seller got the date of 1896, although it seems likely enough. I have now a better second copy and will keep both in the collection; both are fragile.

Identifier

en_US 5962 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81386

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US E. & J.B. Young & Co.

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.3 .N877 1896 See all items with this value

en_US Collection See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole