Select Fables in Prose and Verse

Title

en_US Select Fables in Prose and Verse

Description

en_US First edition

en_US Kenneth Patchen

Creator

en_US No Author

Date

2016-01-25T19:02:15Z

en_US 1996-07

en_US 1811

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:02:15Z

Date Issued

en_US 1811

Abstract

en_US Someone has written First edition on the first page of this small (3½ x 5¼) pamphlet. It contains thirteen fables in its fifty pages. In the title-page's illustration, Aesop holds up a mirror that shines back on human beings. Moore is quoted, including these lines: With friendly hand I hold the glass,/To all promiscuous as they pass:/If the fantastic form offend,/I made it not but would amend…. Two of the three prose texts (The Shepherd Turned Merchant and SW) are from Croxall. Most fables here are well-known in the tradition. Those less known include The Young Lady and Looking Glass (15), The Nightingale and Glow-Worm (29), The Boy and Rainbow (39), and The Bee, Ant and Sparrow (43). Every fable is adorned with a small quadrangular illustration. These have now been crudely hand-colored. 45 is misprinted as 54. The spine has been taped over. This is what I think of when I hear of a chapbook. The pamphlet is inscribed in 1811 as well as dated in that year by the publisher on the cover and title-page.

Identifier

en_US 3994 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79334

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Samuel Wood

en_US NY

Subject

en_US PN982 .S38 1811

en_US Reader

Type

Pamphlet