The Fables of Aesop

Title

en_US The Fables of Aesop

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: und

en_US Selected and edited by Ruth Spriggs

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Downer, Maggie

Date

2016-01-25T20:11:23Z

en_US 2012-04

en_US 1995

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:11:23Z

Date Issued

en_US 1995

Abstract

en_US Here is a large-format (9 x 11½) book I would describe as like a recent British Milo Winter. It offers some 108 classic fables with 72 new illustrations, all in colour, as the back cover proclaims. The illustrations, in various partial-page sizes, are classic: revealing, helpful, consonant with the tellings of the stories. Are the versions the same ones that Ruth Spriggs published with Frank Baber's illustrations twenty years earlier? The title-page illustration looks quite similar to things I remember from Baber. There are a T of C and two pages of background at the book's beginning. Particularly pleasant or revealing illustrations include The mountain (in labor, 8-9); WS, with the man taking a nap under a tree (15); The wolf and his shadow (26); and DLS (41). Here it is a grandson that joins a miller and his donkey (70-71). Less known -- and well illustrated with three pictures -- is The wolf and the donkey (58-59).

Identifier

en_US 9780856540639

en_US 7735 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82992

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Peter Lowe: Eurobook Limited

en_US S.l.

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.S665 Fab 1995

en_US Aesop

Type

en_US Book, Whole