Aesops Fabler

Title

en_US Aesops Fabler

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Norwegian

en_US Paa Norsk ved Tilla Valstad

Creator

en_US No Author

Contributor

en_US Valstad, Otto

Date

2016-01-25T15:38:45Z

en_US 2014-08

en_US 1918

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:38:45Z

Date Issued

en_US 1918

Abstract

en_US I think this book is actually worth the high price I paid for it! It is altogether well made. Though it is in a larger format (about 7½ x 10½), the illustration style reminds me of the work of Richard Heighway. The two books are only twenty-one years apart. Among the artistic contributions are initials, printer's designs, part-page illustrations, and full-page illustrations. In these larger images, Valstad makes use of an unusual line technique. Lines become shading, or shading becomes lines. An example would be the first fable, WC: the ground is a series of horizontal lines. The backdrop is set with vertical lines. The tree is a series of ringed lines. Another example is the second fable: note the lines that make up the wolf's body. My favorite image among many good ones in the book is TB. The coward up a tree is wonderfully integrated with its branches. The larger images seem to have two types. Some images are enclosed rectangles, like that for The boar and the Fox. Others, like DS, LM, and MSA are open. There is a lovely header design used twice for the wolf (Ulven, gjeten and Ulven I faareklaer). A bit of brown ink helps accent both the title-pages. There is a fine last illustration: a Greek vase illustrating 2W. There is a T of C at the back. Believe it or not, there are actually page numbers, but I did not find them during my review of this book!

Identifier

en_US 10264 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76252

Language

en_US nor

Publisher

en_US Alb. Cammermeyers Forlag Lars Swanstrøm

en_US Oslo

Subject

en_US PA3855.N6 V4145 1918

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole