My First Book of Fables

Title

en_US My First Book of Fables

Creator

en_US No Author

Contributor

en_US Mansbridge, Arthur

Date

2016-01-25T16:15:21Z

en_US 1996-03

en_US 1950?

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:15:21Z

Date Issued

en_US 1950

Abstract

en_US The sharpest illustration in this book is that of GGE on the title page. The others tend to lack sharpness. Ten fables, many in verse, with explicit morals marked as such. Each page is framed with a colored edge in one of three patterns with designs in either black or white. There are some unusual--and mostly disappointing--features in the versions here. In CP, can the tiniest drop get up to the brink ? In GGE, the intervention comes, at the wife's insistence, after only one egg has been produced. In TH, the hare takes a nap (as in La Fontaine) before he starts the race. The illustrations for The Bundle of Sticks are placed in China. In FC, the crow speaks once with the cheese in his beak before he breaks forth in song and loses it; how can that happen? In TB, one illustration shows the man (carrying a lute for some reason) standing face-to-face with the bear. Another has the bear still in sight after the tree-climber has come back down, in direct contradiction to the text. Did Mansbridge read the story? Despite all of that, the pictures give the book a charm of its own.

Identifier

en_US 2380 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77937

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Collins

en_US Glasgow

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.M94 1950

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole