The Book of Fables: Containing Aesop's Fables.

Title

en_US The Book of Fables: Containing Aesop's Fables.

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Based upon Croxall, La Fontaine, and L'Estrange

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Griset, Ernest Henry

Date

2016-01-25T16:15:24Z

en_US 1995-12

en_US 1885

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:15:24Z

Date Issued

en_US 1885

Abstract

en_US This book's closest relative is the edition by the same name in 1880 from the American Book Exchange. See my comments there. Its other close relative is the Arlington Edition by Hurst which I have listed under 1899?. With the former it shares the smaller, thinner format. It even has, like it, a slip-sheet between the frontispiece and the title-page. This edition has a lively embossed image on its blue-green cover of a stork eating a frog. Inscribed in (18?) '87. The placement of the illustrations seems umimportant in these editions. What the List of Illustrations (7-8) shows is not where one finds the illustrations but where one finds the stories that go with the illustrations. The Finis promised in the list is lacking. The Blind Man and the Lame Man shows up as the frontispiece here. The engravings for FK (53) and CP (127) occur twice. If you keep looking under rocks like this book, you find a great deal!

Identifier

en_US 2393 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77950

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US John B. Alden

en_US NY

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 1885

en_US Aesop and others

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole