My First Book of Fables

Title

en_US My First Book of Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

Creator

en_US No Author

Contributor

en_US Mansbridge, Arthur

Date

2016-01-25T16:49:38Z

en_US 2000-08

en_US 1949?

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:49:38Z

Date Issued

en_US 1949?

Abstract

en_US This book has some features of each of two other books that are very similar: The Children's Press version of the book by the same title under 1949? and the Collins edition listed under 1950?. The cover of this edition is unique: the young man is reaching over the fence to get a golden egg. This book then follows the edition from The Children's Press. It thus does not follow the practice of the Collins version of putting a colored border around each page. The fables included are, with one addition (LM), the same as in the Collins version. The Children's Press version adds several fables near the end that are in neither of the Collins versions, namely this edition and that under 1950? Those additions include BW, DS, and DLS. The illustrations are relatively well done; the colors are not as fuzzy as they sometimes are in the various printings of Mansbridge's work. This edition adds a final unique feature when it fills an empty space on the back end-papers with four stanzas reviewing the stories. Curiously enough, this poem includes mention of two of the three stories excluded in this edition! It presents this pointed admonition: You have laughed at the stories. Now read them again./And, this time, no skipping the tags at the end!/You must ponder The Moral, The Moral, my friend!

Identifier

en_US 3567 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78932

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Collins

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.M94 1949a

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole