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Title
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A B├Âlcs Esopusnak
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Description
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Language note: Hungarian
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Gaspar Heltai; modernized by Arthur Keleti
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Creator
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Heltai, Gaspar
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Contributor
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Kaza, Gyorgy
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Date
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2022-10-13T19:19:22Z
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2020-08
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1948
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Date Available
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2022-10-13T19:19:22Z
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Date Issued
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1948
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Abstract
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This 1948 publication seems a smaller version of the 1943 large-format edition. Other than that change of size, it lacks the frequent red print of the original and its number (#84) in the limited edition of 1200 numbered copies. This edition adds a gold embossed illustration of FC on the front cover. I have noticed that the subtitle seems to be "The fables and instructive speeches of the wise Esopus and others and their meaning." This book was apparently reprinted by the publisher ÔÇô and perhaps others ÔÇô many times over, sometimes with a colored title-page or cover. I will include here comments I made on that earlier version. There is much to say about this beautiful book of 100 fables and 31 strong woodcuts. Some things are not clear to me. Are the woodcuts patterned on a Remondini edition "Aesopi phrygis et aliorum fabulae"? Were the woodcuts done with Heltai's original edition in 1566 or sometime later? These woodcuts are in any case strong and simple. Among the best are the title-page illustration found again on 55. Notice the a+rtist's struggle with the face of a lion on 67. I believe that the original publisher was Diosgyor Paper Mill. Gaspar Heltai was apparently a polymath: preacher, bible translator, and writer on many subjects. Gyorgy Kaza was a late nineteenth and early twentieth century artist.
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Identifier
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12442 (Access ID)
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Language
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hun
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Publisher
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Tevan Printing and Publishing Company
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Bekescsaba,Hungary
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Subject
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PA3855.H8H45 1948
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Aesop