The Fables of Aesop Based on the Texts of L'Estrange and Croxall (larger format: 5½x 7½)

Title

en_US The Fables of Aesop Based on the Texts of L'Estrange and Croxall (larger format: 5½x 7½)

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: eng

en_US Edited by J. Walker McSpadden

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Billinghurst, Percy J. (not acknowledged)

Date

2016-01-25T16:49:30Z

en_US 1998-10

en_US 1903

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:49:30Z

Date Issued

en_US 1903

Abstract

en_US These two books use the identical plates used to make the smaller format book published by Crowell in the same year. Thus they have 230 pages and 330 fables. See my comments there. These books have a slightly larger format and use wider margins. They also take a slightly different approach to the illustrations, removing the FC frontispiece and putting it on 202. Instead there is a frontispiece of DS that may be done after a Billinghurst illustration, but it lacks the typical frame given his illustrations here. In the good green-covered copy the frontispiece includes pink tint. Several other illustrations are moved slightly. The roster of Billinghurst illustrations here is thus LM (10), The Fox and the Goat (26), FWT (42), FS (90), FG (122), FK (171), and TH (218). The cream-colored copy lacks the FS illustration. There is no illustration in either copy for FK, though there is a suspicious gap in the green-covered copy between 170 and 171. The cream-colored copy is inscribed in 1921. It is especially clear on the green cover that the eyes of the peacock's feathers are imprinted into the book's cover.

Identifier

en_US 3542 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78908

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Thomas Y. Crowell Company

en_US NY

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 M77 1903a

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole