Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

en_US Aesop Classics

en_US 0

Description

Rev. George Fyler Townsend

Creator

en_US Townsend, George Tyler See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Weir, Harrison

en_US Moore, Susie (Preface)(Introduction)

Date

2019-01-28T20:29:53Z

2018-05

en_US 2018

Date Available

2019-01-28T20:29:53Z

Date Issued

en_US 2018

Abstract

en_US Here is a nice reproduction of G.F. Townsend's "Three Hundred Aesop's Fables" of 1880, published then by George Routledge and Sons and including, now as then, fifty of Harrison Weir's illustrations. This reproduction is good enough to reproduce the title-page from that edition, with the addition of the present-day names and places. The Weir illustrations are better defined here than in many of the early publications by various publishers. There is a T of C at the end and a list of illustrations between the life of Aesop and the first fable. I believe that the T of C has changed the typeface of the page numbers; I wonder what mystery lies behind that choice. Have some stories or pages been dropped? This book has made me aware for the first time that there is an editing group named "aesopbooks.com." This volume belongs to their "Aesop Classics," along with Shakespeare and Canterbury Tales. Though this seems to be the only "Aesop" book that they publish, it is heartening to find a publishing group named after the ancient fabulist!

Identifier

en_US 11464 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/121240

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Aesop Classics

en_US Oxford, England

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5T6 2018 See all items with this value

Aesop See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value