Fables: Aesop

Title

en_US Fables: Aesop

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Inscribed in 1901.

en_US Joseph Jacobs

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Heighway, Richard

Date

2016-01-25T16:30:59Z

en_US 1994-03

en_US 1901?

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:30:59Z

Date Issued

en_US 1894

Abstract

en_US This small (4½ x 6½) edition shares several curious features with the other five like it in format: Home Book Company 1894/95? (plain tan cover with title); Montgomery Ward 1894/98 (La Belle Library on cover); Caldwell 1894/1900? (red roses against a gold background on cover); Caldwell 1894/1902? (DS on cover); Pathfinder 1894/1905? (abstract silver designs against maroon background without title on cover). First, one OF illustration is inserted at 67 between The Jay and the Peacock and FS, several pages away from the OF story. Second, the Contents page is not well matched with what follows. It announces A Short History of the Aesopic Fable on 11. It announces next a List of Fables on 19, but it is on 5. It announces Aesop's Fables on 23, but they start on 26. One printer's error can last through many editions! The notes are correctly announced for 205. All these editions finish on 228. Stories frequently run two pages long, one of which has to be turned to view the other. These editions differ in how they handle several features other than their covers: especially the early pages and their illustrations; the preface and history mentioned above; the acknowledgement of the editor, Joseph Jacobs, and the illustrator, Richard Heighway; and several paste-in illustrations on heavier paper, printed on only one side. The ideal places for these inserted pages are 42 (The Sick Lion), 64 (The Bald Man and the Fly), and 196 (The Buffoon and the Countryman). This edition--with two children reading on a window-bench on the cover-- has only the demon-in-the-mirror image on the left pre-title page. It has a colored frontispiece of DS (which will appear as a cover illustration in the Caldwell edition I have assigned to 1902?). It has the frontispiece image of fox and lion just before the preface on 8. The preface names Jacobs. Heighway is nowhere mentioned. The history follows. The inserted image of the sick lion is misplaced at 40, that of the bald man is misplaced at 56, and that of the countryman with the pig at 200. The front end-paper is stamped with an ex lib poem. The book is inscribed at Christmas, 1901.

Identifier

en_US 3401 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78776

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US H.M. Caldwell Company

en_US NY

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.A254 Jac 1901

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole