Three Hundred Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Three Hundred Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: gre

en_US Literally Translated from the Greek by the Rev. Geo. Fyler Townsend, M.A.

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Weir, Harrison

Date

2016-01-25T19:55:03Z

en_US 1996-06

en_US 1880?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:55:03Z

Date Issued

en_US 1880

Abstract

en_US This tight, well-executed book, uses the same text and the same engravings that appear in Routledge editions of 1867 and 1885? Let me note the differences and repeat some good comments from those editions. Greenaway is no longer mentioned on the title-page as engraver. This edition uses the first two pages of the preface and drops the other nineteen pages. The life of Aesop drops the Greek and Latin sections and cuts the text from four pages to two. The list of illustrations does not appear here. The AI at the back of those editions appears at the front of this edition. The text is newly typeset. The paper is better here. I note little or no foxing. The engravings are slightly less defined. One finds Weir's name less clearly imprinted in the illustrations, for example. Weir so often appears in cheap editions whose illustrations are indistinct! Among the most memorable illustrations here are LM (11), WL (13), WC (15), TH (19), The Seagull and the Kite (119), and The Ass and His Driver (209). There is a set of illustrations that I find sketchier and almost ethereal. They would include The Labourer and the Snake (43) and The Blind Man and the Whelp (177). This is one of many excellent contributions from the Leeper Collection.

Identifier

en_US 6536 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81858

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US McLoughlin Brothers, Publishers

en_US NY

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 T6 1880

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole