Uncle Charlie's Favourite Fables

Title

en_US Uncle Charlie's Favourite Fables

en_US Uncle Charlie Series of Books for the Nursery

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

Creator

en_US Charlie

Contributor

en_US Weir, Harrison

Date

2016-01-25T20:03:59Z

en_US 2011-03

en_US 1899?

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:03:59Z

Date Issued

en_US 1899?

Abstract

en_US My list of books titled by Uncle is growing: Uncle Frank, Uncle Didrick, Uncle Ben Jay, and of course Uncle Remus. Now here is Uncle Charlie. This is some of the clearest work I have by Weir: his main contribution to the book seems to lie in the quadrangular illustrations that take about two-thirds of a given page. Weir appears in Bodemann only for the 1865 Townsend edition and a French LaFontaine published around 1890 by Ardant in Limoges. Several Weir engravings here seem to add 1869 to his signature, like The Vine and the Goat and FG. The full-page illustrations, like The Stag in the Ox-Stall and The Charger and the Ass, seem to be from a different hand and to be generic animal pictures not related to the fable's scene. They are in any case less impressive. It continues to amaze me that publishers added pictures of animals to a book like this almost without reference to the specific story at hand. Thus LM features a strong Weir illustration but also a picture of four mice eating around a bird's nest. The following story of The Ass and the Little Dog has a good line drawing of the ass rising up in front of its master, but also a generic picture of a dog looking out of his doghouse. This book would provide a field-day for investigators of late-nineteenth century Aesopic and other illustrations. Other names on illustrations include Greenaway, Swain, Zwecker, Pearson, Trood, and Berkeley. The paper-covered spine is weakening. Pictorial boards. The front cover shows a ram, a lamb, and a bird, the back cover a pug and a turtle. In a curious contradiction, the verso of the last page says Printed by Morrison and Gibb Limited, Edinburgh; the cover seems, around a slight tear, to proclaim Imp. H. Grünblum Weimar. The book is inscribed in 1900.

Identifier

en_US 7152 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82429

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Griffith Farran Browne & Co. Limited

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.U52 1899

en_US Aesop and others

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole