Fables

Title

en_US Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Robert Louis Stevenson

Creator

en_US Stevenson, Robert Louis

Contributor

en_US Martyn, Ethel King

Date

2016-01-25T16:50:52Z

en_US 2000-09

en_US 1902

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:50:52Z

Date Issued

en_US 1902

Abstract

en_US See my comments under two Scribner editions (1914 and 1923) of the same twenty short pieces. A preface by the illustrator's brother (G.K.M.) offers the rationale for this book: The book is the outcome of the wish of a few to possess in a separate form the FABLES of Robert Louis Stevenson, hitherto included with other work, and also to have bound with them the Etchings of my sister. The etchings, he notes, had already been seen at the Exhibition of the Painter-Etchers in 1902. As Richard Drury has explained to me, the fables were first published in two numbers of Longmans Magazine in 1895 and then as part of the volume of THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE WITH OTHER FABLES. He sees no reason to doubt Longmans' claim here that this is the first time that they are brought together and published separately. In fact a two-page introductory comment titled Fables (xi-xii) relates the same history in more detail. RLS had enough traditional fables by 1887-88 together with a few longer ones to promise a book of them to Longmans in spring of 1888. One or two were added to the group in the next six years, though his mind seemed to be elsewhere. The collection was certainly not what its author had meant it to be. After his death, his representatives thought the fables of sufficient interest to be handed to Longmans for publication first in their magazine and then in a new edition of THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. This comment. signed S.C., is in my Scribner's edition of 1923 but not in their fancy large edition illustrated by Herman in 1914. The etchings are listed on ix. The last of them, The Song of the Morrow (91), may be the most engaging.

Identifier

en_US 3817 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79158

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Longmans Green,

en_US London

Subject

en_US PR5488.F13 1902

en_US Robert Louis Stevenson

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole