The Frogs Who Wished a King
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Aesop
Bates, Clara Doty
Pastotnik, Chad (illustrator,) (printer)
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2008
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Let me start with the press's own description: 7¼ x 7½; 22 pages. Letterpress printed in Garamond types. Intaglio engravings. Printed on mouldmade Hahnemühle Biblio paper. Quarter-bound with an Asahi cloth on the spine and Cockerell marbled paper over boards. The press includes a short comment on Bates: Clara [Doty Bates] (1838-1895) was an editor of The Detroit Tribune and author of several children's books. In addition she was also responsible for creating a model library for children at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. A first illustration, on the pre-title page, shows a single frog looking to the right, perhaps waiting for the page to be turned. The verso of the title-page has a full-page illustration in brown of four frogs, one of whom is seen leaping on a log. The verso of the first page of Bates' lively text then includes -- above and to the right of and below its versified text -- a suggestion of the roof of a Greek temple, with a hand draped over it at the wrist. The hand has apparently just let go of a log, which almost strikes a frog. Another frog looks on from the bottom left. Turn two pages and we see, in full-page without any text, a crane seizing a frog with its beak. The final page of text features an image below the text of a crane with a crown suspended over its head. This book is a lovely little treasure, and I am fortunate to have found it. Enterprising bookmakers and artists keep coming back to Aesop!
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Deep Wood Press
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10056 (Access ID)