A Treasure House of Fables Instructive and Entertaining

Title

en_US A Treasure House of Fables Instructive and Entertaining

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Collected and Edited by G. Moir Bussey

Creator

en_US Bussey, George Moir See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Grandville, J.J.

Date

2016-01-25T16:49:57Z

en_US 1994-08

en_US 1860?

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:49:57Z

Date Issued

en_US 1860?

Abstract

en_US Here is a fascinating knockoff of the earlier and lovelier Fables Original and Selected, published by Willoughby in 1842. This book lists on its title-page the authors from whom texts are being taken. It turns out to be a long list: Aesop, Phaedrus, Pilpay, La Fontaine, Dodsley, Florian, Addison, Fenelon, Gray, Lessing, Northcote, Nivernois, Goldsmith, Yriarte, Aikin, Gellert, Croxall, &c., &c., &c. Even Florian's Don Quixote shows up here, as it did in the parent work. The only illustrations here are twenty-three plates, listed on 24. As in the parent volume, there is an AI at the front. This book apparently drops some texts from the original volume; it uses the same versions as are found there. It is remarkable for the ugly typeface used for the titles of the fables. This book is not divided, as is the parent volume, into four books. There are some pages of advertisements at the back. The introduction seems to have been brought over intact except for several paragraphs just before the last paragraph. There are some uncut pages here. See my comments on the parent volume and on the 1842 Willoughby and 1863 Appleton copies.

Identifier

en_US 3625 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78984

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co./Thomas D. Morison

en_US London

Subject

en_US PN982.B82 1860 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole