The Fables of Esope, Translated Out of Frensshe

Title

en_US The Fables of Esope, Translated Out of Frensshe

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US No. 221 of a limited edition of 250 copies

en_US William Caxton

Creator

en_US Caxton, William (translator)

Contributor

en_US Parker, Agnes Miller

Date

2016-01-25T19:59:36Z

en_US 2010-04

en_US 1931

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:59:36Z

Date Issued

en_US 1931

Abstract

en_US There are ninety-seven fables of Romulus in five books and seventeen further Aesop's fables in Caxton's late medieval versions. Caxton's ever-present slashes have been well replaced with colons. The title-picture includes grasshopper, stag, wolf and dog, and two birds. Among them are reeds and pages of print. There are, as Bodemann points out, seventy-five initials, the title-picture, and thirty-six illustrations in the text. The initials, done by the printer William MacCance, are frequently repeated. They do not deal with the subject matter of the fable they begin. The Parker woodcuts are simply lovely! One after another is engaging. I will start by using GA and the title-page to give people an idea of her artistry. One could take almost any of the thirty-seven woodcuts and find it leading to a good understanding of the fable. I will include some comments from the bookdealer. This is the original printing, bound in brown sheepskin which is mottled, darkened and rubbed, repaired at the head and heel of spine, corners pushed and fraying, new endpapers, edges rough-trimmed, initial letters designed and engraved by William MacCance, the printer at Gregynog, internally the pages and illustrations are clean and crisp, with a small mark and some browning to the inner edge of the title page, white mark (like correction fluid) to the edge of the following page, and the occasional slight sign of handling.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier 427.1

en_US 6876 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82181

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Gregynog Press

en_US Newtown, Montgomeryshire Wales

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 C3 1931

en_US Aesop

Type

en_US Book, Whole