The Big Book of Fables
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Jerrold, Walter
Robinson, Charles
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1912
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This copy of this book is in poor condition. The spine is all but gone, and the frontispiece and preceding pages are loose. Its difference from the good copy I found from Dorothy Meyer in 1995 is that this title-page lists a co-publisher: H.M. Caldwell Company in New York and Boston. This copy was bought at Brentano's in New York and is inscribed in 1946. As I write of the Blackie copy, this is one of the more lavish books I have. There are 147 fables, with twenty-eight colored plates, a hundred black-and-white plates, and many smaller designs. The introduction (vii) is strong on morals: There are some people who pretend to dislike these morals, but they are short-sighted folks who think that a thing should be only beautiful, and do not see that it is still more beautiful if it is useful as well. Fortunately most people do not agree with those short-sighted folks.... The versions include many verse renditions. A Huntsman and a Currier (8) is a variation, new to me, on TB. Jerrold tells MSA differently when he has the old man in anger throw the ass into the river (279)! The designs include good silhouettes of the young man and swallow (31), the lion's allies going to war (66-67), and the wolf turned shepherd (145). My favorite colored illustrations are FG (104) and BF (178). On 293, the book itself makes an appearance in the book's final illustration. See the 1987 reprint with the same title, but with colored illustrations done by Jane Harvey.
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Blackie and Son/H.M. Caldwell
H.M. Caldwell Company
H.M. Caldwell Company
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7725 (Access ID)