Ezopovy Bajky
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Here is Fortuna Libri's Czech republication of Brimax's 1991 book, "Aesop's Fables." The two books make for a fascinating study in the family tree of books. I have seldom seen a more faithful use of the original. What is different? What had been a central picture of LM on the front cover has become instead an image of FS. What had been an AI at the beginning of the volume has become a true T of C. The page-for-page match between books remains strong, with only the captions and texts changed. As I wrote there, the visual approach is unusual. The backgrounds are varied, the borders clever, and the illustrations lively (single or double paged). They are echoed in each case by at least one Bewick reproduction (mostly generic, a few showing fables themselves) and sometimes by a small repetition of a detail from the larger picture. The morals are nicely captioned within the borders. The grand prize goes to "The Eagle and the Beetle" (92-3). Other good illustrations feature the mouse thumbing his nose at the bull (10-11), a face on the back of a groaning wagon (18), an exhausted town mouse back home (37), an astronomer at the bottom of a well (44), a chagrined fox (65), the tortoise's shell-like house (77), tree-faces (90-1), a knight on a broken-down horse in the farmyard (98), a freezing spendthrift sitting over a bunny-hole (111), and a mangy crow that has tried to be a swan (121).
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