Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources, With Fifty Illustrations

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources, With Fifty Illustrations

en_US Farm and Fireside Library #8, July 15, 1881

Description

en_US By Rev. Thomas James

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Tenniel, John

Date

2016-01-25T19:02:50Z

en_US 2001-09

en_US 1881

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:02:50Z

Date Issued

en_US 1881

Abstract

en_US Here is a very lucky find. This 94-page booklet includes perhaps two hundred fables on 9-93 after the typical James Introduction to the Life and Fables of Aesop and before a page of advertisements that continue on the inside and outside back-cover. The fifty illustrations would make for a fascinating study. I believe that they are derived from the reworking John Tenniel and Joseph Wolf did of Tenniel's original work. Take a sample image like that for The Boasting Traveler on 65. It is clearly fashioned after the work that appeared in those Tenniel/Wolf editions, but it is copied. And it bears a stamp, as do many here: Commercial Eng. Co. Chicago. I am amazed that the publisher could pack in so many fables and illustrations in a little magazine--and happy that it has lasted this long. This booklet suggests something both about the popularity of fables and about the delivery system for them in the late nineteenth century. The front cover has become detached.

Identifier

en_US 4125 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79449

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US NY: The American News Company/Springfield, OH: Farm and Fireside Company

en_US NY

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 J36 1881 See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole