Fables in Verse
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1855
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This book gives me the feeling that I have seen it before, probably under other names. Its squarish page-format and short verse fables mark it off from other books. Each of the thirty-two fables (128 pages) receives one or two illustrations; many tail-pieces seem only vaguely related to the fable. The tellings seem to me at first glance to place it squarely in the tradition of Phaedrus. In many ways it is a classic book, even in its choice of fables to present. They include: WL, FK, BF, DS, LS, WC, The Ass & Lion, OF, FS, The Fly & Horse, DW, CJ, The Man & Serpent, 2P, The Lark & Her Young, The Crab & Her Daughter, The Mountain in Labor, SW, The Satyr & Traveller, Hercules & the Carter, GA, The Ape & Her Young, DLS, DM, The Stag & Vine, The Mischievous Dog, The Boys & the Frogs, The Farmer & His Sons, The Old Woman & Her Maids, The Eagle & Crow, and The Ass & Master. The printer and editor made a mistake: Fables 15-17 come after Fable 19, though the pagination works correctly. It was not easy to get the Renaissance owner to agree to my buying just two books from a larger set. Now a year later, I still see the remaining books remarked in price sitting on the shelf. Inscribed in 1857.
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Brown, Bazin, & Co
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