Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

en_US Charming Colour Books for Children

Description

en_US Retold by Blanche Winder with 18 colour plates by Harry Rountree

Creator

en_US Winder, Blanche

Contributor

en_US Rountree, Harry

Date

2018-08-29T16:42:34Z

en_US 2018-07

en_US 1924?

Date Available

2018-08-29T16:42:34Z

Date Issued

en_US 1924

Abstract

en_US Rountree did a twelve-page pamphlet of Aesop, for which I have guessed a date of 1930, and a family of editions of Aesop for Children's Press and Collins' Clear-Type Press, all of which I have listed under "1922?" Ward, Lock published an undated family of editions which I have dated to "1924?" One of the surprising things about this family is the spread of numbers of colored illustrations. Previously I had found editions with the following numbers of illustrations: 16 colour plates, 16 colour plates and 8 sepia illustrations, 24 colour plates, 30 colour plates, 30 colour plates and 18 sepia illustrations, 48 colour plates. The dust-jacket front in this copy has the tortoise doffing his cap to the hare at the finish line, with the fox howling. Its spine shows FG, while the back cover is a rather indistinct version of DS. The frontispiece has the crow with borrowed feathers appearing before the lion king. The printer is Whitefriars. The biggest surprise is that this volume itself offers "18 colour plates," while its dust jacket promises "20 colour plates by Harry Rountree." Might the discrepancy be resolved by counting among the color illustrations the two endpapers, each of which presents two fables in color? My, seven different levels of illustration for one book! I will confess that I did not take up the task of comparing the dust-jacket advertisements or internal advertisements for other similar books. I feared that the numbers games would drive me crazy! 224 pages. The book itself has "Ward Lock" at the base of its spine; the dust jacket, by contrast, has "Ward, Lock, & Co." Not in Bodemann.

Identifier

en_US 11360 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/119065

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Ward, Lock, & Co.

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.A254Wi 1924g

en_US Aesop