Fables of La Fontaine, 6th ed., Vol. I

Title

en_US Fables of La Fontaine, 6th ed., Vol. I

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: fre

en_US Elizur Wright, Jr.

Creator

en_US de La Fontaine, Jean

Contributor

en_US Hartwell, A.

Date

2016-01-25T15:24:32Z

en_US 1992-04

en_US 1843

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:24:32Z

Date Issued

en_US 1843

Abstract

en_US A lovely small fancy edition, with marbled boards and gilt on spines. It seems at first identical with the fourth edition of the same year, but a closer look reveals a wonderful surprise. Wright replaces the Notice of October, 1842, with a new one dated from Dorchester, March 3, 1843. The old one had acknowledged Hartwell and Grandville. The new notice includes this statement: The testimonies of my success in this respect are extremely gratifying. But, having reason to suppose, from criticisms both friendly and unfriendly, that the work might be rendered more acceptable to parents and teachers in other respects, I have, with some care, revised it for that purpose, changing many expressions, altering some fables, and entirely omitting a few. The places of those omitted are filled up with other fables from his own pen. Thus in this volume The Fly and the Game is inserted for The Bitch and Her Friend (2.7), The Dog and the Cat for The Mountain in Labor (5.10), and The Golden Pitcher for The Young Widow (6.21). Catching the smaller alterations would be fun sometime! The substitutions are marked in the AI for both volumes at the beginning of Volume I. The impression of the illustrations seems darker here than in the fourth edition; it is easier to read detail in the earlier edition. These two fancy volumes originally sold for the grand total of $1. There are six pages of tribute to Tappan's edition at the end of Volume I.

Identifier

en_US 1194 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/75978

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Tappan and Dennet

en_US Boston, MA

Subject

en_US PQ1811.E3 W6 1843b

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole