The Book of Fables

Title

en_US The Book of Fables

Description

en_US Edited by Edric Vredenburg

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Morris, Rufus

Date

2016-01-25T19:27:53Z

en_US 2003-07

en_US 1945?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:27:53Z

Date Issued

en_US 1945?

Abstract

en_US Here is a simple, landscape-formatted, canvas-spined book about 9¼ x 8¼ with nearly identical front and back covers. The pattern is the same for fourteen of the fifteen fables presented. Texts with a monochrome splash of color behind them stand on the left facing a full-page black design against a single different color on the right. The exception is at the centerfold, which combines text and illustration on both pages and uses background color for both. All of the book's illustrations are signed Rufus Morris. The last adds 41. In TH, the distance is five miles and the stakes are five pounds. In The Tortoise and the Eagle, the eagle realizes in mid-air that he has been lied to about the reward of jewels and he exacts his revenge by sticking his talons into the soft parts of the tortoise's body. I find this version strange. Story and image for The Fox and the Wolf do not match: the story is about a cave, and the picture is about a well! There is of course also a well-known fable that involves a well. I think that the translator literally got onto a different page from the illustrator! In FK, the frogs ask for a king who would make them live a little honester. The most dramatic of the illustrations depicts desperation in The Old Man and Death.

Identifier

en_US 4856 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80476

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Dawfox Productions

en_US Sydney, Australia

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.B663 1945 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole