Item
Aesop's Fables: Vol. I: A First Reader
- Title
- Aesop's Fables: Vol. I: A First Reader
- Young Folk's Library of Choice Literature
- Description
- en_US Mara L(ouise) Pratt(-Chadwick)
- Creator
- Pratt(-Chadwick), Mara L(ouise) See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-04-20T15:51:07Z
- en_US 2015-08
- en_US 2015
- Date Available
- 2016-04-20T15:51:07Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2015
- Abstract
- en_US Here is a paperback book that helps me to carry on my campaign against "publish upon demand" books. This book is, in some form, a reprint of Mara Pratt's 1892 first volume. The botched job by the reprinter makes it hard to know just what that form is or which printing of Pratt's work is involved. Let me list my frustrations as I have tried to catalogue this book. First, the cover -- and of course the title under which it was advertised and sold -- is not the title on the title-page. Let me quote verbatim the title on the cover: "Aesop'S Fables: A First Reader - Primary Source Edition." Who would recognize that as Pratt's book? Secondly, who is the author? The xeroxed page inside this book identifies her, as do -- so I believe -- all the published editions of her work, "Mara L. Pratt." The publisher, in his wisdom, has made her into Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick. While it is helpful to have the information of her changed name, the present publisher is not making things easier for those of us who would like to be careful about names. My biggest frustration comes as I open the book. I have regularly used the images for FG, an early fable in the 1892 version, as a test case for various printings and editions. Typically, there is an image I watch on 10 of these editions. What is on 10 here? It can be hard to answer this question because 5-7 recount "The Fox and the Lion." 8-9 are misplaced from the beginning of the volume; they show Harvard's library identifier and the inscription of the original giver of the book. Shall we look to 10 to complete the story of the fox and lion? What appears is the apparent ending to FG, but without the usual FG image! I give up! When instant publishers become more serious about reproducing their books, I will become more serious about cataloguing them!
- Identifier
- en_US 10598 (Access ID)
- Language
- eng
- Publisher
- Educational Publishing Company/NA
- Subject
- en_US PZ8.2.A254Pr 2015 v.1 See all items with this value
- Aesop See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection