Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

en_US An Advertiser Classic

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Selected and Adapted by Louis Untermeyer

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Greenberg, Joseph

Date

2016-01-25T19:28:16Z

en_US 2004-06

en_US 1955?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:28:16Z

Date Issued

en_US 1955?

Abstract

en_US Eighty-four fables with pleasant black-and-white cartoons. Aesop, with a crutch, appears frequently in five or six repeated poses after fables. There are several good, pithy morals here, e.g. for The Angler and the Little Fish: A man in a tight corner makes many promises (49) and for The Fox and the Hedgehog: A thief in real need steals more than one who has plenty (95). There is a colored frontispiece and two other pages colored on both sides (96 and 128). The colored images are lively, perhaps romantic or even sentimental, e.g. The Trees and the Axe (96). The best of the black-and-white images may be that for The Mule (46), which shows the two faces of the truth. This is now the third version I have of this book. The other two, for which I guess the same year of publication, advertise themselves as A Courier-Mail Classic and A Sun Classic.

Identifier

en_US 4955 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80552

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Colorgravure Publications

en_US Melbourne, Australia

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 1955c See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole