Fables, Vol. III

Title

en_US Fables, Vol. III

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

Alexis Rousset

Creator

en_US Rousset, Alexis See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2025-05-20T17:10:39Z

2025-03

en_US 1856?

Date Available

2025-05-20T17:10:39Z

Date Issued

en_US 1856

Abstract

en_US This third volume, covering Books XI-XV on 240 pages, continues the mysteries of the first two. It lacks not only the closing T of C but also the title-page found at the beginning of Volume II of the two-volume set, and so it lacks the publisher and date (1856) found there. The major anomaly in this third volume is that it ends at 240, while the equivalent segment of the two-volume set has 19 more fables to go in Book XV and ends on 288. Was the printer of this set intoxicated? Did Rousset publish one long work and then another longer one, including some of the earlier illustrations? The same pattern holds concerning images: while there are some repeaters from the two-volume set, there are many more images here and many of them were not in that set. I noticed five such images and checked their fables. In XII 6 on 65, a bear learns from a monkey that taking revenge on the insult from a horse deprives one of the right to complain. At XII 10 (73) a lion shames a vulture about to eat a chick and then eats a mother sheep and her lamb! At XIII 17 on 146, a horse does a lot of complaining while an ass traveling the same route with him sees it as the common lot, even for people. At XV 7 on 235, a tamer is held by the chain as much as the lion is. At XV 11 on 224, "Fly and Ant" recoups GA but with little sympathy for the fly.

Identifier

en_US 13704 (Access ID)

uri

https://cdr.creighton.edu/handle/10504/158058

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US L. Maison?

Subject

Alexis Rousset See all items with this value