Fables Original and Selected by the Most Esteemed European and Oriental Authors

Title

en_US Fables Original and Selected by the Most Esteemed European and Oriental Authors

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US G. Moir Bussey

Creator

en_US Bussey, George Moir

Contributor

en_US Grandville, J.J.

en_US Bussey, G. Moir (Essayist)

Date

2016-01-25T19:28:45Z

en_US 2004-08

en_US 1839

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:28:45Z

Date Issued

en_US 1839

Abstract

en_US I have worked my way back to what I believe is the original edition of this book. I have it otherwise in editions listed under 1842, 1842?, 1863, and 1869. The former two were published by Willoughby (the printer here) and the latter two by Appleton. This edition does not have the magnificent hand-colored plates of the 1842 copy, but it is still a treasure. 497 fables from some thirty-two fabulists, named with their respective fables in the AI on xxix. Forty-nine full-page illustrations, listed on xxxiv. Each of the full-page illustrations is not only printed on a separate page, but also has its own slip-sheet. The versions include prose and verse, revised from their sources for the use of children. LaFontaine is taken chiefly from Matthews (1820), Yriarte from Belfour; all other translations are original. I believe that the illustration of The Miser and the Treasure (145) is missing. The very best plates depict the dog with cropped ears (201), the acorn and the gourd (217), the viper and the file (225), the frogs demanding a king (273), and the mountain in labor (297), identified as by Aesop. Notice the adaptation of Grandville's frontispiece to include Aesop, etc. The front cover is becoming detached.

Identifier

en_US 5062 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80654

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Charles Tilt

en_US London

Subject

en_US PN982.B8 1839

en_US Aesop and others

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole