Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US Language note: English

en_US Aesop; George Fyler Townsend

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Tenniel?

Date

2016-01-25T20:04:38Z

en_US 2010-10

en_US 2009

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:04:38Z

Date Issued

en_US 2009

Abstract

en_US This is a very curious book. It is quite attractive, with a pliable plastic binding and covers and a cover displaying in color a peacock, rooster, and another fowl. Inside it surprises me in several ways. It presents its fables in categories I have not seen used before to give divisions to a book: Ass (24 fables); Bats (3 fables); Birds, and so on. Birds turns out to be a folder rather than a file; it contains subheadings of Birds of Various Kinds (37 fables); Crow; Daw; Eagle; and Lark. Bull, Camel, Cat, Deer, Dog, and Fish/Ocean Dweller follow in order. Each fable is presented in a Townsend text with Townsend and Perry numbers. These are easily available on Laura Gibbs' website; even a nice index is available there that serves as a T of C for Townsend and for Perry, respectively. In fact, there are appendices offering each of these lists -- but no cross references. They are simply lists of the numbers and titles according to Townsend and then according to Perry, respectively. There are cartoons of a Disneyesque character for each chapter beginning. The cross-eyed lion on 179 is brushing his teeth. There are also some small designs for selected fables. These designs look to me like they are from Tenniel. For several fables near the end of the book, there are references rather to L'Estrange and to Chambry than to Townsend. Designs mark the top of each page: Aesop's Fables with a vine of grapes on the left-hand pages and Aesop's Fables with a lion and fox on right-hand pages. Where did the categories of this book come from? And who is the audience for this sort of book?

Identifier

en_US 9787506294782

en_US 7275 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82548

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US World Publishing Corporation

en_US Beijing

Subject

en_US PZ8.2 .A254 2009

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole