Aesop's Fables, with 100 Illustrations

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables, with 100 Illustrations

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Second edition

en_US F. Opper

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Opper, Frederick Burr

Date

2016-01-25T16:07:45Z

en_US 1994-04

en_US 1917

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:07:45Z

Date Issued

en_US 1916

Abstract

en_US This book represents a major find, for which I am strongly indebted to Mary. This copy got me going on a major project, and I found Opper worthy of careful analysis. See my extensive comments on the first edition (1916). Here I will mention how this second edition differs. It lacks the colored frontispiece of DLS. It drops one fable, The Bitch and Her Whelps (on 155 there) and rearranges twenty-two others. Eleven of them shift position slightly, and eleven others come from the end of the first edition and fill in along the way in the second edition. Apparently, editors filled in gaps along the way. The result is that the first edition ended on 320, while the second ends on 312. The colored frontispiece of DLS is missing here. Pages 100-101 there presented a colored first stage on the left page and a black-and-white second stage of FC on the right page, both without text on their pages. Then followed, on 102, the text of FC. By contrast, in the second edition both illustrations are colored and both are accompanied by text on their pages. I notice that at least one set of illustrations is reduced in size from the first to the second edition: the two for The Fox and the Goat on 86. This book is in better condition than the earlier edition. Thank you, Mary!

Identifier

en_US 1830 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77396

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US J.B. Lippincott

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.A254 Op 1917

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole