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Title
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en_US
Fabelbuch für die Jugend
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Description
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Dritte auflage
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Gesammelt und bearbeitet von Julius Hoffmann
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Creator
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Hoffmann, Julius
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Contributor
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Offterdinger, Carl
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Date
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2020-01-23T17:38:56Z
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2019-07
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1880?
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Date Available
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2020-01-23T17:38:56Z
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Date Issued
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1880
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Abstract
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Here is a sturdy book in very good condition featuring a strong chromolithograph pasted onto its cloth cover: King Lion is seated on a raised dias, surrounded by various animals and with an arch behind him proclaiming the title. The subtitle continues "Eine Auslese der besten Fabeln." Julius Hoffmann is not only the publisher. He is also responsible for the prose versions of the 120 fables, each begun with an elaborate initial. The author or source is named after the title of each fable in the text but not in the beginning T of C. Bodemann lists the first edition in 1872 (#347.1) but does not mention further editions. Her description of the first edition fits this copy perfectly. There are 68 pages of texts, interrupted by eight chromolithographs at regular intervals. This book may offer a firm source for these oft-repeated chromolithographs, which appear on cards and other publications. Six of the eight colored full-page illustrations are signed by either of the two artists: FC (frontispiece); "The Miser and the Monkey" (8, after Hagedorn, unsigned); WL (16); TB (24); "The Lion, the Ass, and the Fox" (32); WC (40); "The Fox and the Woodcutter" (48); and "The Ass and the Lapdog" (56: La Fontaine, unsigned). This is a lovely book!
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Identifier
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11679 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Julius Hoffmann
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Stuttgart
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Subject
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Aesop and others