Fabeln des Äsop
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Authors
Aesop
Solis, Virgil,
Steinhöwel, Heinrich
Zobel, Victor
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1980
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This Insel-book from 1980 offers an opportunity for comparison with the Insel Verlag publication of the same number from the 1930's or just earlier. I have it listed under 1933?. I note the following changes. The covers are still patterned boards, but the geometric pattern has changed, as has the color-combination from maroon and blue to yellow and brown. The earlier version claimed forty-nine woodcuts. This version correctly claims fifty-one. That volume numbered its fables and gave their titles and texts in Gothic script. This version has the fables unnumbered and their texts in Roman script. The texts remain Victor Zobel's reworking of Steinhöwel. A T of C is added at the end. The printing of the Solis woodcuts is darker and sometimes clearer here. The original copyright listed in both versions is 1914. As I mentioned there, this is a lovely thin book. It is especially valuable for the many good Solis illustrations. Maybe among the best are the illustrations for Vom dem Pferd und Hirsch (32) and Vom Fuchs und dem Bock (48). This is an unusual fable book in that it has almost nothing besides the fables and their illustrations. The only addition consists in a few sentences on 56 about Steinhöwel and Solis.
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Insel-Verlag
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5878 (Access ID)