Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US Embellished With One Hundred & Eleven Elegant Engravings

Creator

en_US Aesop

Date

2018-07-05T18:38:14Z

en_US 2018-05

en_US 1797?

Date Available

2018-07-05T18:38:14Z

Date Issued

en_US 1797

Abstract

en_US Bodemann #186.1 refers to an 1818 work based on an edition not included in her bibliography, a 1797 edition by T. Heptinstall. Here is an edition by T. Heptinstall! Could it be? One would want to compare the title-page of that edition, represented in Bodemann. I find it a clear reproduction of the title-page here. I believe that 110 fables and illustrations are a regular foreshortening of Croxall's long work of 196 fables. A clue is that each fable has an "application," a favorite term of Croxall's. There is no doubt that this is a Croxall edition, even though he is not mentioned. This edition seems to include the whole Croxall application, rather than just the first paragraph, as some did. The illustrations here are wonderfully executed and wonderfully preserved. For example, the second and third illustrations do just what we would want them to do: set up the situation of the wolf against the lamb and of the lion against the four bulls. I feel very fortunate to have come across this little (3¾" x 6") book.

Identifier

en_US cf. 186.1

en_US 11320 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/118614

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US T. Heptinstall, Fleet Street

en_US London

Subject

en_US Aesop