Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Original language: grc

en_US First edition

en_US Anne Gatti

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Salter, Safaya

Date

2016-01-25T15:53:12Z

en_US 1992-07

en_US 1992

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:53:12Z

Date Issued

en_US 1992

Abstract

en_US A very pleasing book available from this publisher only in the United Kingdom. See the adjacent listing for the first U.S. edition. Salter was born in Cairo, and her art here is in a primitive style after that of Persian miniatures. I like it. It reminds me at times of the work of Jason Carter. The art is nicely varied, including sometimes a small repeater from the major illustration to mark off a fable's moral. The large illustrations sometimes present several different phases of the story. The best illustrations include The Beetle's Revenge (9) and DM with a zebra (39). The frontispiece has Aesop showing a book to a fox. The fifty-eight fables are generally well told. Some morals are unsatisfactory, like that for the too fat fox: Time is a great healer (11). Others hit closer to the mark, like that for The Exiled Jackdaw (49): Don't expect those you have insulted to welcome you back. Gatti helps the story of the transformed cat by adding the cat's promises to give up feline ways (49), but she follows the poor version of SW (73).

Identifier

en_US 1851455671

en_US 1388 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76963

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Pavilion Books

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.A254 1992b

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole