Phädrus Augusti Libertus: Aesopische Fabeln: Acht Holzschnitte
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Glas, Erich
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1920? , 1920
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Google Books supplied the date of 1920 for this lovely portfolio. This lovely work occasions a large cluster of comments. First, I could manage getting it only because of a serious reduced-price sale. Secondly, I see that a parallel offering of six fables, by the same artist and publisher and apparently in the same format, is selling for €645 in Switzerland. Thirdly, there are no texts here; the T of C at the back lists a scene rather than a fable title. Thus LS, the first fable, is listed this way: Wie der Löwe mit Gewalt den Genossen seiner Jagd den versprochnen Anteil vorenthält. Fourthly, this portfolio is curiously bent, perhaps in conjunction with some contact with water, in its upper left corner. Fifthly, if one can believe it, the post office in Germany misunderstood the last line of a slightly incomplete address. That is, there was no USA printed on the label. The package was, as a result, missent to Oman! Other fables illustrated are The King and the Cobbler Turned Doctor; OF; Hawk As King of Doves; A Wounded Horse and a Loaded Mule; Serpent and File; Bees and Drones; and The Panther and the Shepherd. The last may be the most impressive of an impressive lot: panther and attacked man are almost fused together artistically. Glas is at his best, I think, with humans and with highly detailed subjects like Bees and Drones, partially rendered through a magnifying glass. There is also one initial for the D that will start Dohle in BF. The illustrations are 3? x 4?. Now I have to watch for a chance to find that companion volume of six different woodcuts.
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Amsler & Ruthardt
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10112 (Access ID)