Three Hundred Aesop's Fables Literally Translated from the Greek

Title

en_US Three Hundred Aesop's Fables Literally Translated from the Greek

en_US Golden Gem Library #47

Description

en_US By the Rev. Geo. Fyler Townsend

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Weir, Harrison

Date

2016-01-25T19:53:52Z

en_US 2007-11

en_US 1900?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:53:52Z

Date Issued

en_US 1900?

Abstract

en_US This is a forerunner of the modern paperback book. Is it equivalent to a railroad book? It contains the full Three Hundred Aesop's Fables edition by Townsend and Weir, complete with the opening picture of an older man near ships' masts talking to a younger man near some stairs. There follow in succession Preface (v-xxiv); Life of Aesop (xxv-xxviii); List of Illustrations (xxix-xxx); Fables (31-188); and AI (189-92). I have at least five other editions of this combination of three hundred fables and fifty illustrations. The closest to this little edition is a Routledge edition listed under 1885? with the same page size, about 4.5 x 6.25. That Routledge edition, at least in its present condition, lacks the opening picture and follows different pagination; for examples, fables there begin on 9 and here on 31. The first and last pages here, which serve as front and back cover respectively, are loose. There are advertisements for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup on the obverse of the title-page and on the back cover. This was a surprising find on eBay, and the price was right!

Identifier

en_US 6309 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81638

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Optimus Printing Company

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 T6 1900c See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole