Favourite Fables and Stories About Animals, containing: The Favourite Book of Fables and Favourite Stories about Animals

Title

en_US Favourite Fables and Stories About Animals, containing: The Favourite Book of Fables and Favourite Stories about Animals

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

Creator

en_US No Author

Contributor

en_US Weir, Harrison

Date

2016-01-25T19:12:14Z

en_US 2002-02

en_US 1894

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:12:14Z

Date Issued

en_US 1894

Abstract

en_US The first of the two books combined here I have already had. It is a lovely little book of 117 fables with a mix of illustrators and illustration styles. As I write there, I think I can detect four different styles and, presumably, sources. (1) The sharpest and best is a set of mid-sized rectangular engravings by W. Small (e.g., 17 and 25). (2) The largest occupy a full page, broken in some way by the presence of text (e.g., 13 and 57). (3) Next in size comes a set of large squares (59 and 75). Either of these last two categories may be by or from Weir. (4) The smallest rectangles seem to be a poor man's Bewick (11 and 20). I wish I could place the source of the ass's sprawl on 49. See my comment there on the Weir illustration of TB on 73. The second volume of longer animal stories has the same variety of illustration styles.

Identifier

en_US 4419 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80089

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Thomas Nelson and Sons

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.F386 1894

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole