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Title
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Aesop's Fables, with 100 Illustrations
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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First edition
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F. Opper?
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Creator
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Aesop
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Contributor
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Opper, Frederick Burr
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Date
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2016-01-25T16:49:30Z
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2000-06
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1916
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T16:49:30Z
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Date Issued
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1916
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Abstract
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At last I am delighted to get back to a first edition of this important work. Mary Keane's gift of a second edition (1916/17) got me going; see my comments there. In fact, I had just finished an extensive review of that edition when I was lucky enough to find this one. Ash/Higton present Opper's work; in fact, they use the DLS colored frontispiece from here on their 71, but the text of DLS that they give on 70 is not from here. There are here about 370 fables, with a T of C at the beginning. The book is a gold mine for fresh interpretations. Some fables are told differently, like LS (54) and The Lion and His Three Counsellors (307, where the issue is one of seeing, not smelling). A company of mice run over the lion in LM (55). The Monkeys and Their Mother (102) seems half nature-lore and half fable. The Hunted Beaver (49) speaks with discretion of a certain part of the animal used as a drug. Opper's morals are lively, funny, homespun, and careless--often comments rather than morals. Some good ones: 208, 266, and 319. Particularly folksy morals: 37, 48, 83, and 113. Morals as comments: 117, 178, 248, and 251. Careless morals: 22 and 32. Sometimes the urge to comment turns the meaning around completely, as in DW's moral (97). The illustrations are above all playful. They remind me of a newspaper cartoon series I knew as a kid done by a fellow named Hatlo. The animals are in human dress. A strange thing occurs in the illustration of FC. Pages 100-101 here present a colored first stage of FC on the left page and a black-and-white second stage on the right page. The further colored illustrations--some half and some full page--are BC (63), The Hares and the Frogs in a Storm (135), GA (174). The Wolf, the Fox and the Ape (215), and The Monkey and the Camel (295). The best of the black-and-white illustrations are on 86, 95, 141-3, 160, 166-67, and 210. Though this book is between fair and good condition, its paper may be hardier than the paper in the second edition, which is in better-than-good condition. There is a misprint in the T of C: The One-eyed Dove (16). This book is a treasure!
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Identifier
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3540 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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J.B. Lippincott
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Philadelphia, PA
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Subject
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PZ8.2.A254 Op 1916
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Aesop
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole