I.A. Krylov: Basni

Title

en_US I.A. Krylov: Basni

Description

en_US Language note: Russian

C. Telingatera

Creator

en_US Telingatera, C.

Contributor

en_US Laptev, Alexey Mikhailovich

Date

2020-01-23T17:39:09Z

2017-08

en_US 1948

Date Available

2020-01-23T17:39:09Z

Date Issued

en_US 1948

Abstract

en_US We have a less well preserved copy of this book already in the collection but with one other suggestive difference. Where that copy has "57" crudely stamped onto its colophon-page at the end of the book, this copy has "58." Might it be that this stamp is an indication of the year of actual printing? I would not be surprised. Because of that difference, I will keep it in the collection. This copy lacks the portrait of Krylov just before the first fable. As I wrote of the previous copy, this book seems a standard presentation of Krylov's fables, with a rich assortment of A. Laptyev's 1947 illustrations. Might they perhaps have been done for this edition and then used extensively elsewhere? The T of C at the end lists seventy-eight fables on the book's 147 pages. The only illustrations are full-page black-and-white presentations, and I count twenty of them. Most represent well-known fables from either Krylov or La Fontaine, from "Quartet" and "The Monkey and the Spectacles" to WL and "The Elephant and the Cat." The book has an elaborate green cloth cover and spine with golden lettering.

Identifier

en_US 11786 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/125495

Language

en_US rus

Publisher

en_US Dietckij Literatury

en_US Moscow

Subject

en_US PG3337.K7B32 1948

Krylov

en_US Title Page Scanned