Fables Original and Selected by the Most Esteemed European and Oriental Authors

Title

en_US Fables Original and Selected by the Most Esteemed European and Oriental Authors

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US G. Moir Bussey

Creator

en_US Bussey, George Moir

Contributor

en_US Grandville, J.J.

en_US Bussey, G. Moir (Essayist)

Date

2016-01-25T15:24:18Z

en_US 1991-11

en_US 1842

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:24:18Z

Date Issued

en_US 1842

Abstract

en_US One of the gems in my collection! 497 fables from some thirty-two fabulists, named with their respective fables in the AI on xxix. Forty-eight magnificent hand-colored plates; the list of full-page illustrations (xxxiv) counts forty-nine, but the presentation plate is uncolored. The versions include prose and verse, revised from their sources for the use of children. LaFontaine is taken chiefly from Matthews (1820), Yriarte from Belfour; all other translations are original. New to me and good: The Schoolboy, the Pedant, and the Gardener (169). The very best plates depict the miser and the treasure (145), the dog with cropped ears (201), the acorn and the gourd (217), the viper and the file (225), the frogs demanding a king (273), and the mountain in labor (297, Aesop). Lindseth lists an edition of this book from Charles Tilt in London in 1839. Notice the adaptation of Grandville's frontispiece to include Aesop, etc. The arrangement in four books seems haphazard. A real treasure for its versions and especially for its plates.

Identifier

en_US 1146 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/75931

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Willoughby & Co.

en_US London

Subject

en_US PN982 .B8 1842a

en_US Aesop and others

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole