Moral Fables and Parables

Title

en_US Moral Fables and Parables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US By Ingram Cobbin

Creator

en_US Cobbin, Ingram

Date

2016-01-25T19:11:40Z

en_US 1997-06

en_US 1863

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:11:40Z

Date Issued

en_US 1863

Abstract

en_US In this tight little (3¼ x 4½) 16mo, we have a version of the original behind Peter Parley's Book of Fables (1836), which claims Cobbin as source. See my comments there. This book contains fifty-five fables, whose sub-titles indicate the vice or virtue with which the fable deals. I have compared the two books. The designs of the illustrations are the same. I would guess that the illustrations there were done in imitation of these illustrations or the parents of these illustrations. The texts and the sub-titles are different, even for fables of the same name. The fables, as I write there, are full of explicit lessons about what little children should do. Many of these stories show animals learning too late what they should have done. The principal lesson is overwhelming: obey your parents! A typical fable is thus The Angry Monkey (59). Affronted by other monkeys, he climbs up into the rafters and begins throwing bricks and timbers at the other monkeys. He is admonished to be careful or he will bring the building down. He pays no heed. Soon the roof falls and the monkey's brains are dashed out. The fables that I noted in my comments there appear here. These include: The Cow and the Clover (39); The Rat and Her Young Ones (44); The Fox and the Spaniel (52); The Rival Snails (92); The Child and the Rainbow (124); The Young Wolf and the Lamb (137; in the other version it is rather The Wolf and the Young Lamb). In The Boy and the Loaded Ass (27), both return from a difficult trip to find the master ordering the boy to take the ass on his back and carry him to the stable! Now there is an object lesson! Each fable has an illustration at the beginning and a tailpiece. The first illustration is faintly colored. The tailpieces here seem regularly to be related to the fable. There is a T of C at the beginning. I am delighted to have found a copy of Cobbin's work!

Identifier

en_US 4327 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79999

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US William Tegg

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.C83 Mo 1863

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole