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Title
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Ezop & Hollar: Bajky z Ezopovych Fabuli a Brantovych Rospravek Jana Albina ze Sborniku Prostejovskeho Z R. 1557
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
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Language note: Czech
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Original language: grc
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Jiri Kolar
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Creator
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Aesop
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Contributor
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Hollar
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:01:44Z
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2002-05
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1957
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:01:44Z
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Date Issued
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1957
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Abstract
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What a rich collection of images! Organized apparently in three books of Aesop according to Romulus, each containing 20 fables, then 19 new fables, and finally 28 fables attributed to three sources that I cannot make out. After an essay at the back on Aesop and then on Hollar, there follow an AI, a list of illustrations, and a T of C. I have trouble deciphering exactly what we have here. My best guess is that it is a reproduction of a fable text edition of 1557 with the (later) illustrations of Hollar, who seems to have been born in Prague in 1607. The structure seems to be quite similar to Steinhöwel's. Here there are 77 illustrations, listed on 275-76. Most are labelled J.O. (John Ogilby, I presume). According to Bodemann, Hollar did 57 illustrations in Ogilby's 1665 edition; the other 24 illustrations in that edition were copies of the work already done by Cleyn for Ogilby's 1661 edition. Hollar also did 18 new illustrations for Ogilby's 1668 second collection. Three others there were engraved after Hollar's earlier work. Seventeen others were done by Barlow, and one was done by Joshua English. Altogether in that second collection, there were 39 plates containing 41 illustrations. Only partly because I can do nothing with the Czech texts, I enjoy these marvelous full-page illustrations! To page through is to meet good old friends. Let me mention a few of the best: DS (19), TMCM (27), LM (43), The Stag at the Pond (105), The Head and the Members (117), The Crow and the Ram (163), The Crab and Her Mother (217), and CW (227). New to me and striking is the illustration for The Tortoise and the Eagle (213), which has the pair above the globe of the earth at satellite-like height. What a great perspective on what is happening here! And is that BC on 255? The mice seemed to have gathered a petition for the cat.
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Identifier
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3895 (Access ID)
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Language
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cze
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Publisher
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Nase Vojsko
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Prague
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Subject
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PG5038.K645 E98 1957
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Aesop and others
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole