The Fables of Aesop with a Life of the Author

Title

en_US The Fables of Aesop with a Life of the Author

en_US Oxford Edition

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Herrick, Henry Walker

Date

2016-01-25T19:54:39Z

en_US 1987-07

en_US 1895?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:54:39Z

Date Issued

en_US 1895

Abstract

en_US Here is the copy with a plain blue cover identical on the inside with copies with tan and blue covers featuring Oxford Edition in a medallion on both the cover and the spine. This plainer copy has nothing on the dark blue cover and on its spine the title, Oxford Edition, and a small gryphon. Did the publisher himself change the color or form of the cover as he ran out of this or that material? I take it that we are in a phase of publishing where binding is rather new to the publishing house. Let me repeat my comments from the other copies. Herrick's illustrations for Aesop were much reproduced, it seems to me. This is one of three different versions of the Oxford Edition that presents his designs, one each for one-hundred-and-ten fables. All these editions stem from the original 1865 edition by Hurd and Houghton (Bodemann #334). As she says, the author of the prose versions is unknown. The applications are often longer than the fables! I find Herrick generally noble rather than imaginative. I think that he is at his best here when he is most dramatic. Two examples are WSC on 64 and CW on 218. I notice in dealing with this copy that the printer of all three, S.J. Parkhill in Boston, is the same.

Identifier

en_US 6459 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81782

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US John W. Lovell Co.

en_US NY

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 1895

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole