Aesop's Fables. New and Enlarged Edition.

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables. New and Enlarged Edition.

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Text based chiefly upon Croxall, La Fontaine, and L'Estrange

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Griset, Ernest Henry

Date

2016-01-25T16:50:27Z

en_US 2001-03

en_US 1874?

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:50:27Z

Date Issued

en_US 1874?

Abstract

en_US I think I have here the key link from which so many editions spread. This is, I believe, the first edition of the enlarged book that worked off of Rundell and Griset's edition of 1869? See my comments there. This copy seems to be identical with what Bodemann describes as #344.2. By comparison with that earlier copy, this one removes from the title-page the red ink from the title and publisher; Revised and Re-written by J.B. Rundell; and a New York address. It adds on the title-page both a reference to Paris and New and Enlarged Edition. The list of illustrations is still contained within two pages (vii-viii) but includes 66 new illustrations, including Finis. That book had stopped dead at the bottom of 240 with an image of a chysalis under the fable The Ant and the Chrysalis. The following page began the AI. This book moves immediately to The Bee and the Fly on 241 and continues with texts and illustrations through to 416, which includes the Finis illustration. On the facing page, 416, the AI starts. The illustrations are excellent in this copy! Bodemann mentions that there are 132 added prose and verse fables. After so many reproductions and partial presentations, I have worked my way back to the source! This copy is inscribed at Christmas, 1887.

Identifier

en_US 3731 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79081

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Cassell Petter, and Galpin,

en_US London

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 R9 1874

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole