Fables for the Nursery: Original and Select

Title

en_US Fables for the Nursery: Original and Select

Description

en_US Catharine Parr Traill

Creator

en_US Traill, Catherine Parr Strickland

Date

2016-01-25T15:47:38Z

en_US 2013-10

en_US 2013?

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:47:38Z

Date Issued

en_US 1821

Abstract

en_US This is a curious 72-page paperback book. Wikipedia tells that Catharine Parr Traill, née Strickland, wrote Nursery Fables in 1821. This semi-facsimile does not offer a facsimile title-page, and so one cannot know what this volume was originally called. It pairs fables with traditional simple illustrations. This is apparently a book published upon demand. The print is apparently contemporary to us, applied to original texts scanned from an old copy. The fables are not standard Aesopic fables, but they present traditional fable themes. The first story is like AD: young Carlos saves a lizard, and then the lizard alerts and thus saves Carlos. This fable supplies the picture from which the cover's illustration of a boy in a large hat is taken. Typical of earliy nineteenth-century children's stories is, I believe, The Monkey and the Lapdog (5). Both get into a great deal of mischief while they are unattended and are severely punished for it. The Grateful Crane (46) is a bit of a surprise. A dog frees a crane from a net; later she can remove a bone from his throat. The battling frog and mouse (48) are each devoured by the second of the adversary, that is, a pike and a hawk. I wonder if these stories might have been fashioned to fit fable illustrations. The next illustration is that of a male with a dead fowl in his lap, as the last illustration was of a bird about to descend on a dueling frog and mouse. Other suspiciously traditional pictures that do not exactly fit their tales picture a lion and a cock, a hunter beating his old dog, a crow perched atop a pitcher. There is a T of C without page numbers at the front.

Identifier

en_US 9781409978480

en_US 9908 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76718

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Dodo Press

en_US S.l.

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.T735 Fab 2013

en_US Catharine Parr Traill

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole