Favourite Fables

Title

en_US Favourite Fables

en_US The Little Big Books

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US By Margaret Baker

Creator

en_US Baker, Margaret

Date

2016-01-25T19:27:54Z

en_US 2004-04

en_US 1940?

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:27:54Z

Date Issued

en_US 1940

Abstract

en_US The General Editor of The Little Big Books is Mrs. Herbert Strang. The signature illustration for the book seems to be the very first illustration, which shows five animals sitting with their backs to us: mouse, steer, rabbit, donkey, and turtle. The same pose with different animals occurs three pages later on the title page, only here the animals include a frog, fox, lion (with a bird in his mane), a heron and a crow. There is a full-page colored illustration of LM for the frontispiece. There seems to be at least one black-and-white illustration per story. Perhaps the best of these is the second for WS, which shows a happy swimmer. The fourteen stories presented include: LM, BC, TH, The Fox and the Crane, TMCM, FC, DM, MSA, OF, WS, CJ, The Donkey and his Shadow, FG, and The Oxen and the Wagon. The book has cracked between 46 and 47. The paper stock for the 60 pages is very heavy, almost of cardboard consistency.

Identifier

en_US 4860 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80480

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.B356 Fav 1940

en_US Collection

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole