Aesop's Fables: A Classic Illustrated Edition.

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables: A Classic Illustrated Edition.

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First printing

en_US Russell Ash and Bernard Higton

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2016-01-25T15:23:16Z

en_US 1990-12

en_US 1990

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:23:16Z

Date Issued

en_US 1990

Abstract

en_US A truly magnificent book--not that different from a book I would have liked to publish someday! Excellent black-and-white and color illustrations. The five-page introduction gives a good overview of the history of Aesop illustration. Fully thirteen of the twenty-nine artists sampled here are new to me. Perhaps the range is broader than in other surveys because the selection is not limited to one library. However, the range of selection raises questions: why begin in 1857 and stop at 1944 (except for one set of unpublished 1970 lithographs)? One German calendar is the only non-English contribution. The introduction speaks of the many hundreds of editions of Aesop's Fables published in Great Britain, Europe and the United States during the past 150 years and the dust jacket of the finest illustrations from the last one hundred years. What of Thurber or Frasconi? Why not stretch to include Gorey (1971), Levine (1975), Eichenberg (1979), and Carle (1980)? Despite these questions (and a sentence beginning not capitalized on 8), this is one of the most recommendable of Aesop books.

Identifier

en_US 877017808

en_US 943 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/75731

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Chronicle Books

en_US San Francisco

Subject

en_US PZ8.2 .A254 1990

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole