Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Based on L'Estrange

Creator

en_US Clarke, Maud U.

Contributor

en_US Clarke, Maud U.

Date

2016-01-25T19:02:08Z

en_US 2000-06

en_US 1904

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:02:08Z

Date Issued

en_US 1904

Abstract

en_US There are several surprises in this book. The first is that I had never heard of this book before it appeared on Ebay. The second is the simple but striking colored cloth pictorial cover showing a frog and a mouse battling, with an eagle about to swoop down on them. The third surprise is the quantity of fables here. This is a heavy book! I find no less than 527 fables here. That is even more than the 500 that L'Estrange had offered. There is a list of Clarke's 101 illustrations on xi-xiv. What strikes me most about these black-and-white illustrations is their varied form. Contrast the two simple designs on x and xi, for example. One is an asymmetrical landscape, while the other is an almost complete circle with a defining band around it. Still others come in complex and unusual shapes, like the cat hanging from the peg on xiv. I have seldom seen as vivid a presentation of The Cock and the Dog on a Journey as in the illustration on 89. Some pages are torn and some loose, but all seem to be present. There is a T of C at the beginning and an AI at the end. This book has spent some of its ninety-seven years in someone's damp basement.

Identifier

en_US 3972 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79312

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Cassell and Company Limited,

en_US London

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 1904

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole