Animal Frolics

Title

en_US Animal Frolics

Creator

en_US No Author

Date

2016-01-25T16:08:18Z

en_US 1994-10

en_US 1890?

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:08:18Z

Date Issued

en_US 1890

Abstract

en_US A surprising find. Mother and I went to a craft show on the fair grounds. I finished early and invaded the antique fair next door. I have looked through thousands of books shown by antique dealers. I rarely find something. Books with simple animal titles or covers usually are not fable-books. So imagine my surprise as I opened this unlikely volume, large-formatted and cut to the profile of the lion walking on the cover, to find some ten fables inside! All but FS come with nice black-and-orange illustrations, unusual for the good match of the two colors' spaces by the printer. The Fox and the Sick Lion adds an unusual jackal as servant to the lion, talking with the fox at some distance from his master. The Porcupine and the Snakes shows a great snake-family dinner, complete with a high chair! The Fox and the Crocodile is rarely printed in books that present a few fables, for its meaning is hard to pin down. Here the mud in the alligator's skin-cracks supposedly reveals his vulgar origins. The dealer is Fr. Norb Lemke's cousin from somewhere in Iowa.

Identifier

en_US 1953 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77519

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US McLoughlin Brothers

en_US Springfield, MA

Subject

en_US PZ10.3.A53 1890

en_US Aesop and others

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole