Old Friends in a New Dress

Title

en_US Old Friends in a New Dress

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Fifth edition

en_US By R.S. Sharpe.

Creator

en_US Sharpe, Richard Scrafton

Contributor

en_US Sharpe, J.F.

Date

2016-01-25T19:11:43Z

en_US 1998-07

en_US 1837

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:11:43Z

Date Issued

en_US 1837

Abstract

en_US See my copy of the 1826 third edition, which added Part II. (Perhaps the first edition was in 1807.) This fifth edition makes several important changes. First, it admits at last who the author is: R.S. Sharpe. Secondly, it cuts the title back by leaving out or Select Fables of Aesop in Verse. Thirdly, it adds a third section of fourteen more stories, Additional Fables, 1837. (It seems also to have dropped one from Part II and to have rearranged the order of fables in both the first and second parts.) Fourthly, it is the first edition of this book to add cuts, eighty-two of them spread over the three parts of the book. Fifthly, Chalmers and Collins in Glasgow have dropped out of the picture as publishers. Finally, the book has grown to 264 pages. See my comments there. I continue to enjoy the artistry of these fables. Perhaps I have been reading so many original fables lately that it is a special pleasure to come back to good traditional stories. I read the new fourteen fables. They are a mix of the well known and the less well known. Their main lesson is, as so often in nineteenth-century fable books, that children obey their parents. The new vignettes are good. Some good examples are Two Goats (112), TT (121), FG (180), and WSC (248). The moral to FG advises doubting the things we cannot gain and being happy without them (180). There is a T of C at the beginning, after the commendations of an earlier edition of the book. The binding has separated completely from the interior of the book. The cover features a gilt arrangement of fable animals around the title. Curiously, the price is stamped in gilt on both the cover and the spine.

Identifier

en_US 4334 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80006

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US London: Smith, Elder, and Co.

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.S53 O44 1837

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole