The Fables of Aesop: 2

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Aesop

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2004? , 2004

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Apparently this volume and each of the other four in the series includes the texts and illustrations first published by Sharma and Rupa in 1993; I have a copy of that book from 1996. The back cover of each of the five books in this series speaks of these evergreen fables, now in five volumes. That now suggests that these texts and illustrations come from an earlier edition. If so, the full-page illustrations and the name of Tapas Guha (here apparently misprinted Gupa in contrast to the other four title-pages) seem to have been added. That same back cover lists the book as belonging to childern's literature (sic). There are 50 pages after 8 pages of introductory material, including a T of C. The texts seem archaic. There are half-page and full-page illustrations with differing styles. The former show much more wit. An example of the partial-page illustrations (there are eleven of them here) is The Fox and the Mask (23); an example of the full-page illustrations (there are four here) is the The Quack Frog (35). I presume that Sharma has done the partial illustrations and Guha the full-page, since the partial illustrations seem identical with those in the earlier edition. The smaller illustrations often feature movement-lines around characters. One sometimes has to turn the page to put together a story and its illustration.

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Rupa and Co.

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