Three Hundred and Fifty Aesop's Fables.

Title

en_US Three Hundred and Fifty Aesop's Fables.

en_US Home Edition imprinted on cover

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: grc

en_US Literally translated from the Greek by Rev. George Fyler Townsend, M.A.

Creator

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Weir, Harrison

Date

2016-01-25T16:49:26Z

en_US 1998-05

en_US 1884

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:49:26Z

Date Issued

en_US 1884

Abstract

en_US Mr. Kniazev saw the Georgetown magazine article, got my phone number from the university, and called to offer this book. It has been very helpful because it gave me a firm first date for this book. I have since learned that Weir first created fifty illustrations for a Routledge edition of 300 fables of Aesop translated by Townsend in 1865. Two years later Routledge published an edition using 114 Weir illustrations with the same texts. Some years later, publishers like Lippincott used a set of over 350 fables, forty of which were simply taken from Croxall and placed at the end of Townsend's collection of 300 (actually 313). This edition is typical of the many reprintings of the Weir illustrations, which seem to have become less defined with each printing. Poor quality paper also hurts the illustrations. Enjoy the Lippincott endpaper advertisements here. Both copies were inscribed in 1886.

Identifier

en_US 3526 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78894

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US J.B. Lippicott & Co.

en_US Philadelphia, PA

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 T6 1884 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole