Fables, Original and Selected, Second Series

Title

en_US Fables, Original and Selected, Second Series

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First edition

en_US James Northcote, R.A.

Creator

en_US Harvey, William

Contributor

en_US Northcote, James

Date

2016-01-25T15:37:50Z

en_US 2014-02

en_US 1833

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:37:50Z

Date Issued

en_US 1833

Abstract

en_US Here is a second copy of this first edition of the Second Series of Northcote's fables, published two years after his 1831 death. The first series of one hundred fables had appeared in 1828. This copy has a simpler -- but apparently contemporary -- cloth binding. There is again an index of engravings and engravers at the back. I was surprised on this reading to find Fable XC about a drunk and his confessor. The good Dominican confessor wonders at the man's repeated confession of drunkenness and so gets drunk once himself. The next day he experiences terrible sickness and headache. At the drunk's next confession, the confessor tells him that he cannot think of a worse penance than the one Nature already prescribes for this sin. A fine endpiece of a drunken Bacchus follows this fable. These engravings come off the page very nicely! When I read the first copy twenty-two years ago, I noted Aesopic fables here including Stone Broth and The Mouse and the Oyster. There is an alphabetical T of C at the beginning.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier #262.1.II

en_US 10095 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76084

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US John Murray

en_US London

Subject

en_US PN982.N58 1833

en_US Northcote

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole