Aesop's Fables (Japanese) Vol. II

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables (Japanese) Vol. II

en_US 2073

Description

en_US Language note: Japanese

en_US Lee Cooper

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Ulm

Date

2016-01-25T19:38:42Z

en_US 1998-07

en_US 1996

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:38:42Z

Date Issued

en_US 1983

Abstract

en_US This is the second of a pair of beautifully printed paperbound volumes I discovered among my books now in 2005. When and how did I get them? I can only guess. There is a $9 price tag on each from Kinokuniya with a San Jose telephone number. Were they perhaps a gift of Rafael Sakurai? As for the book itself, its dust-jacket has beautifully colored Ulm woodcuts of the eagle carrying the tortoise and the wolves asking the shepherd to get rid of the dogs, with the second half of a beautiful peacock on the spine. Inside, the book moves from what we would call the back to the front with a succession of beautiful Ulm images, starting with LM on 11 and recurring every four to twelve pages. The beginning T of C seems to indicate that there are one-hundred-and-seventy-two fables on 223 pages, followed by an essay on Aesop on 224, complete with both Ulm's title-picture and Velasquez' painting of Aesop. On 229, there is an indication of Chambry's 1960 edition, and that may well be what is translated here. What a lovely pair of books!

Identifier

en_US 5525 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81059

Publisher

en_US kaisei-sha bunko: Fusa Ninomiya

Subject

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole