Fables in Verse

Title

en_US Fables in Verse

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Translated into English by Samuel Croxall, D.D. and Sir Roger L'Estrange. With applications, morals, etc. by the Rev. G. F. Townsend and L. Valentine

Creator

en_US No Author

Date

2016-01-25T16:49:53Z

en_US 2000-06

en_US 1864

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:49:53Z

Date Issued

en_US 1864

Abstract

en_US This is a small volume about 5 x 6 with 32 fables on 124 pages. Actually, the numbering of fables in the middle is confused, though no pages are skipped. The order of fables goes through this progression: XIV, XVIII, XIX, XV, XVI, XVII, XX. The frontispiece is a circular illustration of WL inside an ornate frame. The title-page illustration is of three children sitting on the ground. The other illustrations are simple and of several sorts. There are some large full-page illustrations of a given animal involved in a fable (e.g., the peacock on 15). There are other illustrations, sometimes smaller, of fable scenes. The larger illustrations have blank but numbered reverse pages. There are finally tailpieces, many of which seem not to be relevant to the fable at hand (e.g. 32, 36, 40). Most fables are followed by a two-line moral. The illustration for The Ass and the Lion (31) shows a lion, ass, and rooster; I think we have the illustration from one fable here used for another! I have the impression that I have seen these fable illustrations before. I like the closing lines of FS: / No malice, says the Crane, adieu!/ Remember I was taught by you. (40) /The clay pot does all the speaking to the brass pot, asking him to keep his distance (61). The Mountain in Labor (72) wins a brevity prize, since it is only four lines long. The moral in GA chides the grasshopper for idleness and the emmet for niggardliness (89). Heavily foxed. Inscribed in 1866.

Identifier

en_US 3609 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78971

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Boston: Crosby and Nichols/NY: Oliver S. Felt

en_US Boston, MA

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.F33 1864

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole