The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with Designs on Wood, by Thomas Bewick

Title

en_US The Fables of Aesop, and Others, with Designs on Wood, by Thomas Bewick

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Thomas Bewick

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Bewick, Thomas (editor,)

Date

2016-01-25T19:12:09Z

en_US 2000-08

en_US 1818

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:12:09Z

Date Issued

en_US 1818

Abstract

en_US What a wonderful find! I am so happy to have this book in my hand! It once belonged to the Battersea Public Libraries, and perhaps that is only fitting for a volume from Bewick's own hand. It shows some wear, and the pages have grown slightly dim, but it is still beautiful in my eyes! Bodemann # 236.1. The bill of sale just after the Preface Dedicatory has the type of copy, the price, and the signature filled in with ink of a slightly different color. As Metzner points out in Bodemann, there are 188 prose fables after English authors of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, put together and pedagogically reworked by Bewick. As the bookseller's note points out, the second-to-last fable's illustration has been hand-colored (373).

Identifier

en_US 4403 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80073

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Printed by E. Walter for T. Bewick and Son

en_US Newcastle

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 B4 1818 See all items with this value

en_US Thomas Bewick See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole