Three Hundred Aesop's Fables

Title

en_US Three Hundred Aesop's Fables

en_US Caldwell's Juvenile classics

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Original language: gre

en_US Rev. George Tyler sic Townsend

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Weir, Harrison

Date

2016-01-25T15:53:35Z

en_US 1993-06

en_US 1900?

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:53:35Z

Date Issued

en_US 1885?

Abstract

en_US This is a strange book. Its closest relative is Three Hundred Aesop's Fables and One Hundred Picture Fables (1885?). But this edition's title page does not acknowledge the presence of the second book. It does reproduce the five colored plates and five more. Those listed there are found here as the first frontispiece (LM), 96 (the fox and the woodcutter), 202 (Aesop, the cock, and three men: what fable is this?), the second frontispiece (a village scene), and 20 of the Speckter section (the calf and the dog; see 109). The new illustrations are of the woodsman and his axe (36), the ass and his master (88), the quack frog (170, excellent; the latter two match Griset's black-and-white works on 121 and 125 in McLoughlin's Aesop Fables [1900?]), the turkey-cock and her young ones (50; see 51), and the goat (70; see 71). The printing of Weir's work is better than usual. The spine is weak. Note the misspelling of Townsend's middle name and the listing of ten colored plates on the first title page (true for the whole volume) and of four in the Speckter section (true of that section). The yellow cover presents the book's third LM illustration.

Identifier

en_US 1465 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77037

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US H.M. Caldwell Company

en_US Boston, MA

Subject

en_US PA3855.E5 T6 1900

en_US Aesop

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole