Fables of Aesop and Others. Translated into English. With Instructive Applications and a Print before each Fable

Title

en_US Fables of Aesop and Others. Translated into English. With Instructive Applications and a Print before each Fable

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: grc

en_US 17th edition

en_US By Samuel Croxall

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Kirkall, Elisha

Date

2016-01-25T16:49:32Z

en_US 1998-07

en_US 1805

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:49:32Z

Date Issued

en_US 1805

Abstract

en_US This is a vintage Croxall edition in good form from about the middle of the long period during which this edition dominated the fable market. The frontispiece is now engraved by Nesbit. The title-page keeps the changes I had noted in the 1778 eleventh edition. Though the fables again consume 329 pages, as they did in the eleventh edition, the typesetting seems to be new. Hobbs (84-5) speaks at length of Kirkall's white-line technique. She also notes that improved printing techniques after 1800, together with John Lee's retouching of the plates, meant that later impressions were better than any since the mid-eighteenth century. The book was published in as many as two hundred editions and remained in Hobbs' view the most significant children's fable collection for 150 years after its publication--perhaps because for the first time in England every fable was illustrated, and because it was cheap. There is a wormhole around the page numbers of 1-28. As Abbey mentions, this is a clean, crisp copy with excellent impressions. If the inking of some is faint, the details still come through wonderfully!

Identifier

en_US 3547 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78913

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US J. Johnson, R. Baldwin, F.C. and J. Rivington et al

en_US London

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 C7 1805

en_US Aesop and others

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole