Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Aesop's Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Weir, Harrison

Date

2016-01-25T20:04:13Z

en_US 2005-11

en_US 1912

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:04:13Z

Date Issued

en_US 1912

Abstract

en_US I first encountered an almost exact replica of this book sixteen years ago, as published by Ward, Lock & Co. That copy was undated, but I guessed at 1910 based on the /10 after Arthur Cooke's name on some of the colored illustrations. I asked near the end of commenting on that book why it had Harpers on the spine. Now I have an answer. Here is Harper and Brothers' 1912 edition. The cover design is the same but this book uses green cloth whereas that had brown cloth. This copy also gives a date -- 1912 -- on its title-page. This copy is inscribed at Christmas in 1912. It seems finally from its last page that it was printed by Ward, Lock, and Company in London. I gather then that Harper and Ward and Lock worked together on the book, perhaps with Harper having the US rights. This copy is separating from the spine at the beginning of the preface. Here are comments I made on that edition. This is in many ways a standard Weir book, with illustrations often poorly inked. It has the usual 114 engravings, duly tabulated in the list of illustrations at the front. It has the usual preface and life before that. The unusual things about this edition include the eight colored illustrations by Arthur Cooke. I did learn in my research this time (from Hobbs) that Weir first published his engravings in 1860. The engraving of his that she presents there is, again in this instance, not the one used here (TB, 23).

Identifier

en_US 7194 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82471

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Harper & Brothers Publishers

en_US London

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 1912d

en_US Aesop

Type

en_US Book, Whole