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Title
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The Fables of Aesop: Selected, told anew and their history traced by Joseph Jacobs
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Facsimile Classics Series
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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Original language: grc
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Facsimile
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Selected, told anew and their history traced by Joseph Jacobs
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Creator
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Aesop
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Contributor
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Heighway, Richard
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Date
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2016-01-25T20:05:36Z
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2011-07
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1979
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T20:05:36Z
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Date Issued
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1979
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Abstract
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The original of this book was published in 1894 by Macmillan. It has been reprinted quite often, for example by Schocken. This is the best facsimile reprint I have seen. Heighway's brilliant black-and-white work comes alive again here! This copy is in very good condition. I love Heighway's work! There are 220 pages, followed by a two-page AI. Like the original, this book gets going with a left-page frontispiece of two scenes showing FS; a title page with ornate left and right borders; a right-page dedication to Prof. F.J. Child; a preface signed by Jacobs beginning on the right page (ix) and ending over a design on xii; a Contents page; A Short History of the Aesopic Fable (xv-xxii); List of Fables (xxiii-xxv) including eighty-two fables numbered here but not in the text; a left-page showing a hand holding a mirror's reflection of a demon and a right page with a framed scroll of a title (The Fables of Aesop); and finally The Cock and the Pearl (2-3). As in the original, the illustrations, titles, and closing designs are very distinct. Among the best are The Hart & the Hunter (64), The Fox & the Cat (90), The Shepherd's Boy (103), The Four Oxen & The Lion (123), and GGE (134). My, what searching around Powell's won't turn up!
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Identifier
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9780906223079
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7471 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Godfrey Cave Associates
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London
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Subject
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PZ8.2.A254 Jac 1979b
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Aesop
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole