Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: eng

en_US Thomas James

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Tenniel, John

Date

2016-01-25T19:39:16Z

en_US 2003-09

en_US 1848?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:39:16Z

Date Issued

en_US 1848

Abstract

en_US Here is yet a third version of what may be the first American edition of the Tenniel and James book. Earlier I had found versions with black and red embossed covers. This version has a plainer brown cloth cover. Only the title Fables of Aesop is embossed on the spine. The elaborate golden pictures on covers and spine in the red and black copies are not here. The strange pre-title page is not hand-colored here, as it is in those other two copies; for color it has only a yellow background. The page-edges do not seem to be gilt here. Otherwise this version seems identical. I will include some of my comments from there. My favorite private collector gives the date for these editions as 1848 and writes that they are the first American edition. The original London 1848 James/Tenniel, published by John Murray, includes over one hundred illustrations. All of these have only two of the six plates for MSA. There is a one-inch chip missing from the bottom of the spine.

Identifier

en_US 5657 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81175

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Robert B. Collins

en_US NY

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 J36 1848m

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole