The Talking Beasts

Title

en_US The Talking Beasts

en_US Children's Crimson Classics

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First edition?

en_US Edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith

Creator

en_US Smith, Nora Archibald

Contributor

en_US Nelson, Harold

Date

2016-01-25T16:14:42Z

en_US 1992-07

en_US 1911

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:14:42Z

Date Issued

en_US 1911

Abstract

en_US After I had searched for years, Wendy and I found this book at almost the same time: see my comments on the 1911/28 edition, particularly on the text. This book is a little treasure. As against the later edition, this edition has a gold-embossed cover and spine; smaller size because of the smaller margins; an acknowledgement before the title page of the Children's Crimson Classics series; Gay quoted on the title page; acknowledgements; seven illustrations; a list of illustrations; two colors added to the illustrations; and an advertisement at the end for the whole Crimson Classics Series. In this advertisement one learns that Wiggin and Smith are sisters. When compared with the black-and-white illustrations in the 1928 edition, the illustrations here show the power of adding two simple colors. The best of the illustrations are WL (facing 4), Quartet (220), and The Woodman and Mercury (302). Of the twelve sections, those on Aesop and LaFontaine receive sixty or seventy pages each, while the others average about thirty pages. Wiggin's introduction is historically surprisingly accurate. There is a typo on 128. The good copy is inscribed in 1911.

Identifier

en_US 2250 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77808

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Doubleday Page & Company,

en_US Garden City, NY

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.W639 Tak 1911a

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole