Favorite Fables

Title

en_US Favorite Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Thornbury NA

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Doré, Gustave

Date

2016-01-25T16:50:45Z

en_US 2000-07

en_US 1895?

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:50:45Z

Date Issued

en_US 1895

Abstract

en_US This book is almost the same as another from the same publisher with the same title, also listed under 1895? This book has the same curious suppression of mention of La Fontaine on the cover and title-page, and it maintains the same silence about Thornbury's translation and Doré's illustrations. Further, it has the same two pagination/numeration problems mentioned there. What should be Fable XXVI on 68-69 is rather CXLIII on 399-400. What should be the last fable, LXXX on 230-31 is CLXXXI on (525)-526. What then is different here? First, the front cover shows not WL but rather the wolf dressed as shepherd. Second, the back cover features a black-and-white illustration of two children with a doll-buggy. Third, there is no colored illustration before the frontispiece, though of course one may have fallen out or been removed. (I did find some dried flowers buried in the binding there!) This book is in better condition than that one. Again, the covers are boards joined by a canvas spine.

Identifier

en_US 3789 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79134

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Hurst & Company

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.F385 1895b See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole