Aesop's Fables Together with the Life of Aesop.

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables Together with the Life of Aesop.

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US R. Dodsley

Creator

en_US Bachet, Claude-Gaspard

Contributor

en_US Heighway, Richard

en_US Life of Esop de Meziriac, Essay on Fable Dodsley

Date

2016-01-22T21:09:15Z

en_US 1993-06

en_US 1897

Date Available

2016-01-22T21:09:15Z

Date Issued

en_US 1897

Abstract

en_US This was one of the first books in my collection. I have come back to look at it again after reviewing a number of Dodsley editions, including the first in 1761 and Crukshank's in 1798. See my comments on those two books. In an earlier review of this book, two curiosities struck me. I will try to work one out and add another. The first surprise to me was the announcement of the moral before the fable. Yes, this is new in the Dodsley tradition, in which the morals were given in a group at the end of the book. Of course I cannot be sure that this Rand McNally edition was the very first edition to use this format. Secondly, the life of Aesop presented here is indeed identical with that presented in Dodsley's first edition. The new curiosity is that Dodsley's fables are here joined by others, like GA (210) and BS (232), which were not in Dodsley. That gives rise to a nice new question that I cannot go after now: Where did these texts come from?

Identifier

en_US 68 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/74689

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Rand McNally

en_US Chicago, IL

Subject

en_US PA3855 .E5 1897 c2 (green)

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole