Known Fables

Title

en_US Known Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Signed

en_US Bewick 1820

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Frasconi, Antonio

Date

2016-01-25T16:29:42Z

en_US 1998-09

en_US 1964

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:29:42Z

Date Issued

en_US 1964

Abstract

en_US Nine fables listed in a beginning T of C: FG, The Ant and the Fly, The Bear and the Bees, The Lion and the Goat, WC, WL, The Daw with Borrowed Feathers, The Clock and the Dial, and FC. Printed on Goyu paper from the original blocks. Each page is folded over so that it is printed on just one side. Typical Frasconi work. The grasping fox of FG is outstanding. The Bear and the Bees presents two large masses with a few random bees in the open spaces; a huge mass of bees attacks the huge mass of the bear. I think there may have been some confusion about The Lion and the Goat. The illustration shows a lion looking up a cliff at a goat. The text is about the two of them coming at the same time to a fountain on a hot day and preparing to fight--until they see vultures overhead. These vultures are nowhere to be seen in the woodcut. WC's illustration shows typical Frasconi angularity and physicality. The scrawny, plucked daw is in a lower corner wonderfully overshadowed by the beautiful peacocks. The crow of FC practically throws the cheese down to the vigilant wily fox below. Very nice work!

Identifier

en_US 3086 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78493

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Spiral Press

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.A254 Fr 1964 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole