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Title
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Fables in Verse: From Aesop, La Fontaine, and Others
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Description
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Mary Anne Davis, Henry Corbould, and George James Corbould
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Creator
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Corbould, George James
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Date
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2016-01-25T20:04:13Z
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2010-08
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2010
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T20:04:13Z
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Date Issued
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1822
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Abstract
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This is another book printed on demand that can only outrage a booklover. The typesetting and proofreading render the book all but useless. As for typesetting, poetry is regularly rendered as prose here. The T of C is not set off; it can be hard to find. The omission of the first ten items vitiates even more the sense of a T of C. As for proofreading, Fable XXXV begins A PKOVEKB of an ancient date. Approved by time, and fixed as fate, Says, 'Evil fellowship will taint The purest morals of a saint. I put a period at the end of the sentence, but the original had none. It had a period between date and Approved, when there surely was a comma there. The quotation marks around the proverb are not closed. And proverb is clearly the word meant at the beginning of the sentence. What are we to say of a book that no one has troubled to clean up for the reader? For those who want to take the trouble, this volume seems to contain thirty-five fables and several other materials. I had not before heard, I believe, of this edition. I would have enjoyed reading it under other circumstances.
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Identifier
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7193 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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A.K. Newman Co./General Books
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London
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Subject
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PZ8.2.D295 Fab 2010
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Aesop and others
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole