The eagle & the fox & the fox and the eagle: two semantically symmetrical versions followed by a revised application

Title

en_US The eagle & the fox & the fox and the eagle: two semantically symmetrical versions followed by a revised application

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: grc

en_US #148 of 400

en_US After Croxall

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Themerson, Franciszka

Date

2016-01-25T19:12:12Z

en_US 2002-02

en_US 1949

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:12:12Z

Date Issued

en_US 1949

Abstract

en_US This wild and wonderful presentation had been on my want list since I saw it in the Heffelfinger Collection in Minneapolis. Princeton Antiques' notice to me was the first time I had heard that it was available. Though the price was very steep, I tried to follow my collector's rule that one should buy immediately what one has not had the chance to buy before. The whimsy in this book begins on the cover which shows a fox's head separated like a doll from an attractive human female body, while next to it is stamped an outline of the eagle's body. There are already strange things happening! After the pre-title-page's image of hunchbacked Aesop crawling across the page like an animal, we find the title-page's presentation of the title along with each line's mirror image one line lower. The effect is perfect: a reader asks What is this? There follows Croxall's standard version, introduced as appealing for our sympathy with the vixen. Version 2 follows: Our description of the cruelty of the fox, appealing for your sympathy with the eagle. This second version reverses the aggressor and victim relationships exactly, changing only the tree's nest for an underground burrow. The application: These two fables are a warning to us not to deal hardly or injuriously by somebody who can defend himself by dealing hardly or injuriously by us. There ar many less subtle and imperious creatures which we can eat in peace, and to the Glory of God. Do not miss Contents just after the application; it continues the fun.

Identifier

en_US 4411 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80081

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Gaberbocchus Press Limited

en_US London

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 E3 1949 See all items with this value

en_US One fable See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole