Aesop's Fables Told to the Children

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables Told to the Children

en_US Told to the Children Series

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Lena Dalkeith

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Praeger, Sophia Rosamund

Date

2016-01-25T15:24:33Z

en_US 1992-01

en_US 1906?

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:24:33Z

Date Issued

en_US 1906

Abstract

en_US A small format book only forty-seven pages long (one fable to a page, with no external morals), but the art is fine: sixteen pages of colored illustrations, all (except the frontispiece) containing two illustrations; the advertisement at the back promises only eight colored pages in the books of the series! Is this Praeger's original 1906 publication, referred to in Ash/Higton? The illustrations might be called primitive. They are strong and simple, and I like them. The best illustrations include a great frontispiece (and cover) of an old man reading a paper attacked by the friendly ass; the wolf hanged in a sheepskin (facing 16); sleeping girls à la Wilhelm Busch (facing 20); FS (26); MSA (facing 44); and the fat hen with a surprised old woman (facing 44). A wonderful little find! Now in '97 I have had a chance to analyze its texts. They seem to depend heavily on Croxall and less on James. There is less directly quoted speech than is usual in the fables. One of the best texts is The Wolf as Piper. In TH, the tortoise seems to undergo a sex change during the race! The Fox and the Eagle may be the poorest text, not thought through very well.

Identifier

en_US 1197 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/75980

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US London: T.C. and E.C. Jack/NY: E.P. Dutton and Co.

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.A254 Da 1906

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole