Picture Fables
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Authors
Dalziel, Edward (engraver)
Dalziel, George (engraver)
Dulcken, H.W. (translator)
Hey, Wilhelm
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1858
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Several fables touch on Aesopic material (e.g., The Bat and the Bird on 36 and The Thief and the Dog on 86). There is a lovely frontispiece of life with the animals. The best feature might be the drawings of inanimate objects: ham and sausage on 51 and a jug and a pail on 53. The engravings come out here much better than in One Hundred Picture Fables with Rhymes (1879?), which uses the same plates for the fables. The twelve-line tellings are trite and saccharin; the characters tend to be humans rather than beasts. Anne Stevenson Hobbs has remarked that these are really not fable material, and I tend to agree with her. The etchings by Speckter here are different from those in the original German. Is F. Hey related to Wilhelm Hey, who did the original texts? The 1864 printing shows a significant range of differences, none touching the fables and illustrations themselves. Thus it has a different cover decoration and spine arrangement and new red ink on the title-page and the page before it. The address in NY has changed, and now Camden Press prints this copy. There is new color in the print and decoration of the preface. The paper in this printing has not lasted as well. There is some amateurish coloring of the illustrations in the 1864 copy.
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George Routledge and Sons
Routledge Warne, and Routledge,
Routledge Warne, and Routledge,
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1281 (Access ID)