Aesop's Fables in Words of One Syllable

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables in Words of One Syllable

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Mary Godolphin

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T16:29:49Z

en_US 1999-05

en_US 1869

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:29:49Z

Date Issued

en_US 1869

Abstract

en_US At long last I have worked my way back to a first edition of this important book. It is inscribed in 1879. I believe I have the book as done now by six different publishers. Blue cloth with gilt, including a lovely embossed design of a fox under grapes on the cover. I first found this book and commented on it carefully at the Pierpont Morgan in New York. I found that Godolphin's versions for the ninety-nine fables here tend toward drastic results. Thus the fox in the well dies, and the wolf eats the shepherd boy who had cried Wolf! Godolphin has excellent morals, often proverbial; sometimes the moral is in fact another fable. The illustrations include The Doves and the Mouse (frontispiece), The Squeak of a Pig (22), The Stag in the Lake (58), The Kite, the Sow, and the Cat (80), FM (124), The Hog, Ox, Cow, Dog, and Sheep (138), and MM (166). There is a T of C at the front and a two-page set of advertisements at the back. I am very happy to have found this book at last.

Identifier

en_US 3116 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78519

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US James Miller Publisher,

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.A254 1869 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole