A Selection of Aesop's Fables · Markoe DePorres Club

Title: en_US A Selection of Aesop's Fables
Description: en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover); en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
Creator: en_US Aesop
Contributor: en_US Stonehouse, Mary Honor
Date: 2016-01-25T15:53:42Z; en_US 1993-06; en_US 1953
Date Available: 2016-01-25T15:53:42Z
Date Issued: en_US 1953
Abstract: en_US What a beautiful gift! Sharp translations of 118 fables are accompanied by thirteen lovely black-and-white engravings and monochrome and two-color washes. My favorites among the illustrations are of the old woman and her maids (5), 2W (15), and the old woman and the doctor (19). The versions include pointed and proverbial morals. Three of my favorites are Boast before your betters and be laughed at for a fool for The Lion and the Donkey (1), Good wishes from an enemy make the wise man nervous for The Hen and the Cat (7), and The smaller the mind the greater the conceit for The Gnat and the Bull (30). As June herself commented, this is indeed a rare modern Aesop. Dust jacket signed by Charles L. Pickering, who designates himself as Tor-Mentor. A real treasure!
Identifier: en_US 1485 (Access ID)
uri: http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77056
Language: en_US eng
Publisher: en_US Printing Department, Wolverhampton College of Art; en_US Wolverhampton
Subject: en_US PZ8.2.S454 1953; en_US Aesop; en_US Title Page Scanned
Type: en_US Book, Whole