The Fables of Aesop Based on the Texts of L'Estrange and Croxall (smaller format: 5¼x 6¾)

Title

en_US The Fables of Aesop Based on the Texts of L'Estrange and Croxall (smaller format: 5¼x 6¾)

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: eng

en_US Edited by J. Walker McSpadden

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Billinghurst, Percy J. (not acknowledged)

Date

2016-01-25T16:49:30Z

en_US 1998-10

en_US 1903

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:49:30Z

Date Issued

en_US 1903

Abstract

en_US This book is to a large extent identical with the one from the same publisher that I have listed under 1910? The selection and placement of illustrations seem to be slightly different (though in both cases from Billinghurst). There the title-page is missing, and so it is not clear whether J. Walker McSpadden is there identified as editor as he is here. In some similar editions, there is no further indication of editing than the initials J.W.M. at the end of the Introduction. Further, the only indication of date is here on the back of the title-page, and so that information is lacking there too. See my comments there and also my comments on the Books, Inc. editions listed under 1925? and 1930? Here the eight Billinghurst black-and-white illustrations are FC (frontispiece), LM (10), The Fox and the Goat (28), FWT (48), FS (86), FG (116), FK (170), and TH (218). There is an AI on xi. There are 230 pages and 330 fables. A quick check suggests that some narratives are taken verbatim from the Rundell versions that are based on Croxall, La Fontaine and L'Estrange but without using their morals, while some other texts are adapted from there. Tracking that development among knock-off texts around the turn of the century would be interesting someday. The text plates of this book are identical with those in the two copies I have of a 1903 book from Crowell in larger format with a similar cover and an identical title-page. This copy was inscribed in 1916.

Identifier

en_US 3541 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78907

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Thomas Y. Crowell Company

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 M77 1903b

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole