Aesop's Fables
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Aesop
Weir, Harrison (translator)
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1912
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I first encountered an almost exact replica of this book sixteen years ago, as published by Ward, Lock & Co. That copy was undated, but I guessed at 1910 based on the /10 after Arthur Cooke's name on some of the colored illustrations. I asked near the end of commenting on that book why it had Harpers on the spine. Now I have an answer. Here is Harper and Brothers' 1912 edition. The cover design is the same but this book uses green cloth whereas that had brown cloth. This copy also gives a date -- 1912 -- on its title-page. This copy is inscribed at Christmas in 1912. It seems finally from its last page that it was printed by Ward, Lock, and Company in London. I gather then that Harper and Ward and Lock worked together on the book, perhaps with Harper having the US rights. This copy is separating from the spine at the beginning of the preface. Here are comments I made on that edition. This is in many ways a standard Weir book, with illustrations often poorly inked. It has the usual 114 engravings, duly tabulated in the list of illustrations at the front. It has the usual preface and life before that. The unusual things about this edition include the eight colored illustrations by Arthur Cooke. I did learn in my research this time (from Hobbs) that Weir first published his engravings in 1860. The engraving of his that she presents there is, again in this instance, not the one used here (TB, 23).
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7194 (Access ID)