The Fables of Aesop and The Original Fables of La Fontaine

Title

en_US The Fables of Aesop and The Original Fables of La Fontaine

en_US Tales for Children from Many Lands--Double Volumes

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First printing

en_US Translated and Illustrated by F. C. Tilney

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Tilney, F.C.

Date

2016-01-25T16:48:55Z

en_US 1998-06

en_US 1939

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:48:55Z

Date Issued

en_US 1939

Abstract

en_US This volume lets us see publishers at work. I have--under 1915?--this publisher's Aesop's Fables, which is included here almost without change. I have five different copies of The Original Fables of La Fontaine, which is again included almost without change. The second book begins pagination over and so keeps elements like the frontispiece and T of C which it had as an independent book. The frontispiece still has the erroneous left for leapt. Some of the book's curiosities include its author's name and its series. By the 1938 edition of the La Fontaine book, Frederick Colin had become F.C. and so it is here. The 1938 edition had also picked up a series title: Tales for Children from Many Lands. That series name persists here but is now augmented by Double Volumes. As often, the dust jacket changes the title from the title-page, here by omitting the world original. The back of the title-page for the La Fontaine section here suggests the book's history by mentioning first publication in this edition in 1913, a reprint in 1936, and reissue at a cheaper price in 1938, and a reprint in 1939. The corresponding section at the beginning of the book mentions only the first publication in this edition and gives 1939 as its date.

Identifier

en_US 3437 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78811

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US London: J.M. Dent and Sons/NY: E.P. Dutton

en_US London

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 T5 1939 See all items with this value

en_US La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole