Fables (4 book Collection)

Title: Fables (4 book Collection)
Description: 2010? Fables (4 book Collection). CD offering pdf files of Francis Barlow (1687), Thomas Bewick (1878), Ernest Griset (c. 1869), and Guy Wetmore Carroll's Fables for the Frivolous (1900). Planet-E-Tech. Purchased online.

This CD comes from a time when computer afficionados were eager to employ their skills in translating old books into digital form. As they appear on the computer screen, these files were, to me, offputting. Once they are reduced to about 70% of their original size, they take on more of the sharpness of their originals. The Peter Newell illustrations for "Fables for the Frivolous" remain, I believe, overly dark. Griset seems to me always to be overly dark. Why someone would digitize a later edition of Bewick from 1878 and not a first edition is unclear to me. Viewing Barlow will always be a pleasure!
Date: 2010?
Source: Planet-E-Tech. Purchased online.
Subject: Audio-Visual; Compact Disks; Visual CDs