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Title
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Three Hundred Aesop's Fables Literally Translated from the Greek
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Golden Gem Library #47
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Description
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By the Rev. Geo. Fyler Townsend
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Creator
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Aesop
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Contributor
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Weir, Harrison
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:53:52Z
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2007-11
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1900?
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:53:52Z
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Date Issued
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1900?
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Abstract
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This is a forerunner of the modern paperback book. Is it equivalent to a railroad book? It contains the full Three Hundred Aesop's Fables edition by Townsend and Weir, complete with the opening picture of an older man near ships' masts talking to a younger man near some stairs. There follow in succession Preface (v-xxiv); Life of Aesop (xxv-xxviii); List of Illustrations (xxix-xxx); Fables (31-188); and AI (189-92). I have at least five other editions of this combination of three hundred fables and fifty illustrations. The closest to this little edition is a Routledge edition listed under 1885? with the same page size, about 4.5 x 6.25. That Routledge edition, at least in its present condition, lacks the opening picture and follows different pagination; for examples, fables there begin on 9 and here on 31. The first and last pages here, which serve as front and back cover respectively, are loose. There are advertisements for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup on the obverse of the title-page and on the back cover. This was a surprising find on eBay, and the price was right!
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Identifier
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6309 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Optimus Printing Company
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New York
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Subject
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PA3855.E5 T6 1900c
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Type
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Book, Whole