Old Friends and New Faces

Title

en_US Old Friends and New Faces

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Leo Tolstoy, translated by Ann Dunnigan

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Kronheim, Joseph Martin

Date

2016-01-25T16:19:28Z

en_US 1997-11

en_US 1870

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:19:28Z

Date Issued

en_US 1870

Abstract

en_US This large-format book never prints on both sides of the page. The Aesop's Fables section begins with a full-page text and full-page colored illustration of 2W, marred by pencil scribblings. There follow five pages of quartets of fable texts and -- on what would be opposing pages if another totally blank page were not inserted in between -- matching quartets of colored fable pictures. My favorites among the illustrations include the long-nosed woman sniffing the empty cask, the blackamoor being scrubbed, and the menacing owner of the ass in the lion-skin. This illustration I had already had as a separate piece, no doubt cut out of a copy of this book! The title-page and first page of Robinson Crusoe are missing. The spine is chipped and the binding weak. The front cover is embossed in gold with a picture of a clothed ass reading a book. I was very lucky to find this on Brattle's restricted third floor. A recent copy on the net with one torn illustration went for $306! The Lilly exhibit in Indiana highlighted the Kronheim chromolithographic oil color process as a new method of illustration appropriate for children's books. Though in the exhibitor's words it was fancy and fun, the process and the book did little to add to quality illustration or [sic; of?] fable literature.

Identifier

en_US 2860 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78378

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Cassell Peter, and Galpin,

en_US London

Subject

en_US PZ6.O43 1870

Type

en_US Book, Whole