Fables and Parables from the German of Lessing, Herder, Gellert, Meissner, etc. and Fables Selected from Croxall, Dodsley, etc. (cover: Select Fables Ancient and Modern)

Title
en_US Fables and Parables from the German of Lessing, Herder, Gellert, Meissner, etc. and Fables Selected from Croxall, Dodsley, etc. (cover: Select Fables Ancient and Modern)
Description
en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
en_US Language note: English
en_US Robert Lawson and Munro Leaf
Creator
en_US Croxall, Samuel
Date
2016-01-25T16:50:33Z
en_US 2000-02
en_US 1846?
Date Available
2016-01-25T16:50:33Z
Date Issued
en_US 1846
Abstract
en_US Two volumes in one, separately paginated. The spine is crumbling. The first volume is especially helpful for its 112 English versions of German fables on 72 pages. They have no detached morals. The first 72 fables are from Lessing. There is a full-page frontispiece illustration of The Traveller and the Skylark and a half-page illustration of the first fable, The Apparition. Especially valuable for their translations are the following fables: The Apparition (#1), The Ass and the Fox (#6), The Nightingale and the Hawk (#11), The Wasps (#16), The Dogs (#20), The Young Swallow (#23), The Lion and the Tiger (#25), The Blind Hen (#38), The Stag and the Fox (#55), The Thorn (#56), and The Poet and the Peasant (#88). Many of those after Lessing seem to be either a retelling of La Fontaine or a long sermon. There is a good full-page frontispiece to the second volume, The Farmer and the Stag. The telling and illustration are unusual, since this fable usually involves the hiding and revealing of a smaller animal, like a fox or wolf. This second volume contains 122 fables on 72 pages. New to me among these English fables are The Court of Death (37), in which Intemperance is chosen as prime minister of Death, and The Dervise (38), which asks pointedly what the difference is between a castle and an inn. There is a T of C at the beginning of each volume. There are eighteen pages of advertisements at the back of the whole book.
Identifier
en_US 3751 (Access ID)
uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79099
Language
en_US eng
Publisher
en_US James Burns
en_US London
Subject
en_US PZ8.2.F345 1846
en_US Lessing, Herder, Gellert, Meissner, etc.
Type
en_US Book, Whole
Item sets
Carlson Fable Collection Books