Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US First printing?

en_US Nina Rosenstein

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Santore, Charles

Date

2016-01-25T16:14:39Z

en_US 1995-12

en_US 1995

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:14:39Z

Date Issued

en_US 1995

Abstract

en_US This edition is smaller in page-size than Santore's 1988 edition. It presents not the twenty-four fables that each received a lavish illustration there, but rather eighty-two fables. Some of these are not illustrated at all. Others use details from the large TH foldout of 1988 or other large illustrations then. Some of these are repeated (11 and 58, e.g., and 52 and 61) and one is even reversed (27 and 46). This edition's illustration for TH is a cut-and-paste job from the last edition's large foldout. Two of the three pages of the old foldout are used respectively for the front and rear end-papers and their facing pages here. The color-work here is surprisingly good for an inexpensive edition. The text seems to be a modification of the same text used then. Morals are now added. The editor's note on the text, the foreword, the acknowledgement, and the dedication are all dropped. Nina Rosenstein has written a new introduction including the remark that in 300 B.C., the fables of Aesop were written down for the first time, by a Greek politician (10). My, Santore has got himself good mileage out of his 1988 illustrations!

Identifier

en_US 051712212X

en_US 2238 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77796

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Distributed by Random House Value Pub.

en_US Avenel, NJ

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.A254 San 1995

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole