Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Presumed first American edition

en_US Edited by Edric Vredenburg

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Noble, Edwin

Date

2016-01-25T19:27:52Z

en_US 2002-08

en_US 1914?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:27:52Z

Date Issued

en_US 1914?

Abstract

en_US Here is the presumed first American edition. I have the 1914 Tuck edition from England, which seems identical except for the cover. This is a lovely book. It has twelve beautiful colored illustrations, among which The Stag and Its Reflection and WC are the best. A copious set of black-and-white illustrations, too, including those around the beginning list of colored illustrations and the ending AI. A beauty! Like the extra copy of my Tuck printing, this has advertisements at the end of the book. Not in Bodemann, Hobbs, or McKendry. My favorite private collector's first copy seems to be a 1932 Coker edition, though, as I say just below, that may be a different book.. Ash and Higton give 1914 as the date for the BC image that they use on 19 in Aesop's Fables (1990). That image appears here on 108. Tuck also did a six-illustration version, using the same plates. I have it listed here under 1918?. It is thinner. The seller here estimates a date of 1910. Noble did other work on Aesop later, typically in two rectangular segments on one page. Ash and Higton give a date of 1921 for that work, also titled Aesop's Fables. I have copies of that work from Coker, Crowell, and Harrap.

Identifier

en_US 4853 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80474

Publisher

en_US David McKay Company

en_US Philadelphia, PA

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.A254 Vre 1914b

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole