Fables Ancient and Modern Adapted for the Use of Children

Title

en_US Fables Ancient and Modern Adapted for the Use of Children

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Edward Baldwin, Esq.

Creator

en_US Godwin, Mary Jane

Date

2016-01-25T15:23:54Z

en_US 1991-08

en_US 1920?

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:23:54Z

Date Issued

en_US 1840

Abstract

en_US A genuine curiosity right from the beautiful embossed silver/blue cover of WL stolen from Bennett. Before the seventy-one fables, there are nine pages of illustrations gathered together, eight to a page. Each fable has one illustration (The Contractor and the Cobbler gets two). These illustrations are unfortunately small. The introduction gives some surprising tips, which the versions follow: (1) Do not shorten fables; make them visible; (2) do not let fables end unhappily; and (3) introduce nothing new without explanation. Endings are thus often softened, and we get some surprises. The country mouse lives at Horace's villa, the town mouse at Maecenas' palace. The dog in the manger gets both the meat and an admonition. The miller recovers the ass. The ant gives the grasshopper a little. The hermit dismisses the bear after his wound. Men save the tangled stag before the dogs kill him. All ends well in The Travellers and the Money-Bag. This is a genuinely unusual fable book.

Identifier

en_US 1069 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/75855

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Printed for Thomas Tegg

en_US London

Subject

en_US PR4722.F3 1840

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole