Three Hundred Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Three Hundred Aesop's Fables

en_US The Excelsior Series

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Literally translated from the Greek by the Rev. Geo. Fyler Townsend, M.A.

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Weir, Harrison

Date

2016-01-25T16:49:22Z

en_US 1998-06

en_US 1885?

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:49:22Z

Date Issued

en_US 1885

Abstract

en_US Routledge first printed fifty of Weir's illustrations with a Townsend translation of 300 fables in 1865, and in 1867 expanded the book to include 114 illustrations. See my comments on that edition under 1867. Routledge produced a number of derivative editions, apparently always staying with 300 fables, while others (like Donohue) added some Croxall texts for a total of 350 fables. Here is one of Routledge's follow-up volumes, this one distinguished by being in the Excelsior Series, as the cover and front end-papers proclaim. This is a tight book with some foxing but good runs on the illustrations. In pagination and layout it is a nearly exact match for the 1867 edition. Both the Ludgate and NY addresses have changed on the title page, for example, but little else is different. One can see the breakup of a printing plate on the last number at the lower right on the last page (224). The 5 there is losing its top line. The spine, as is typical for these Weir editions, reads only Aesop's Fables without any mention of a number. Check my comments on the similar copies under 1885?/1900?

Identifier

en_US 3517 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78885

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US George Routledge and Sons

en_US London

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 T6 1885l

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole