Alesovy Kresby

Title

en_US Alesovy Kresby

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Czech?

en_US James Thurber

Creator

en_US Aleš, Mikoláš See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Kresby?, Alesovy

Date

2016-01-25T16:19:29Z

en_US 1997-12

en_US 1900?

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:19:29Z

Date Issued

en_US 1900

Abstract

en_US This book represents a recurrent experience and a frustration. The recurrent experience is that of turning over a rock and often finding something. I have looked so often in a book that seems to have nothing to do with Aesop and I have found fables. Here I found a book that had no identification and, daring myself, I looked and found four pages dealing with Aesop. What is the book? I do not know, and there is the frustration. I suspect that it is a book in Czech dealing with an artist named Alesovy Kresby and showing a number of his illustrations, among which are several that he seems to have done for some Aesopic fables in 1886. Until I find a native reader, I will have to offer these hesitant comments. On 105, an ass is carrying a holy image, I believe (Perry 182). On 111, we have Perry 54: a boy asks snails how they can sing when their houses are burning. There are four Aesopic images written into nitials on 116: a snake and a bird around a K, a satyr (Perry 35) in an S, a beetle in an O, and palm trees around a letter I cannot make out. On 125, a lute and a hatchet are crossed. Here is a chance for serious detective work!

Identifier

en_US 2951 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78384

Language

en_US cze

Publisher

en_US s.n.]

en_US Sl

Subject

en_US NC312.C93 A42 1900 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole