The Book of Fables in Prose and Verse

Title

en_US The Book of Fables in Prose and Verse

Description

en_US Denis Saurat

Creator

en_US No Author

Date

2016-01-25T15:53:09Z

en_US 1992-04

en_US 1845?

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:53:09Z

Date Issued

en_US 1845

Abstract

en_US This book, originally sold for $.06, is charming evidence of what fables meant for children in the middle of the nineteenth century. The fables here are long and heavily didactic. The first and longest of the seven fables is the Aesopic fable of the axe, here with Honestus Woodman and Cheathim. Further fables focus on: the animals' argument over greatness, led by orator hog; the bird's three lessons (also Aesopic); the sundial and the weed; the complaining dove (a parable for little girls); the foolish lamb who stays out at night and is devoured by the wolf family; the thief of a bird nest (boo, hiss). Simple engravings. I am glad both to have this little booklet and not to have been born in 1840!

Identifier

en_US 1378 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76953

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Kiggins and Kellogg

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.2 .B662 1845

en_US Collection

Type

en_US Book, Whole