The Fables of Aesop with a Life of the Author.

Title

en_US The Fables of Aesop with a Life of the Author.

en_US Oxford Edition

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Herrick, Henry Walker

Date

2016-01-25T19:54:38Z

en_US 1985-07

en_US 1895?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:54:38Z

Date Issued

en_US 1895?

Abstract

en_US Herrick's illustrations for Aesop were much reproduced, it seems to me. This is one of three different versions of the Oxford Edition that presents his designs, one each for one-hundred-and-ten fables. All these editions stem from the original 1865 edition by Hurd and Houghton (Bodemann #334). As she says, the author of the prose versions is unknown. The applications are often longer than the fables! I find Herrick generally noble rather than imaginative. I think that he is at his best here when he is most dramatic. Two examples are WSC on 64 and CW on 218. This copy has a tan cloth cover with a medallion of a horse in the middle of the front cover and of the spine. Beneath each there is a banner -- though different in the two places -- proclaiming Oxford Edition. There is some gold work on the spine. Compare the similar blue-cloth-cover edition and the plain blue cover edition.

Identifier

en_US 6457 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81780

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US John W. Lovell Company

en_US New York, NY

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 1895

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole