My First Book of Fables

Title

en_US My First Book of Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

Creator

en_US No Author

Contributor

en_US Mansbridge, Arthur

Date

2016-01-25T16:49:06Z

en_US 2000-06

en_US 1949?

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:49:06Z

Date Issued

en_US 1949?

Abstract

en_US I had thought this book was identical internally with the book of the same title published by Collins (1950?). See my comments there. There are actually many differences. This book adds four fables for a total of fourteen. In LM, the mouse does not run over or otherwise disturb the lion. In DLS, the fox in the illustration pulls the lion's skin off by the tail! Also new here are BW and DS. This book has different covers (the same front and back) and endpapers (also identical with each other). Both the covers and the endpapers include illustrations of the horse and the ass and of the eagle and the tortoise. Neither of these stories appears in this book! (No wonder Collins changed the cover and dropped the endpapers.) Similarly, the endpapers show a fox and a lion together, and that fable does not appear here. This book drops the borders around the pages. Many of the illustrations are not well calibrated in the Ripping Yarns copy; they are quite fuzzy. In the much better Dunn copy, the third page of MSA is similarly fuzzy. Since that is one of the few that comes out well in the Ripping Yarns copy, I will keep both in the collection. The Ripping Yarns copy is inscribed at Christmas, 1949.

Identifier

en_US 3462 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78834

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Children's Press

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.M94 1949b

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole