Aesop's Fables
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Winder, Blanche
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1924
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Rountree did a twelve-page pamphlet of Aesop, for which I have guessed a date of 1930, and a family of editions of Aesop for Children's Press and Collins' Clear-Type Press, all of which I have listed under "1922?" Ward, Lock published an undated family of editions which I have dated to "1924?" One of the surprising things about this family is the spread of numbers of colored illustrations. Previously I had found editions with the following numbers of illustrations: 16 colour plates, 16 colour plates and 8 sepia illustrations, 24 colour plates, 30 colour plates, 30 colour plates and 18 sepia illustrations, 48 colour plates. The dust-jacket front in this copy has the tortoise doffing his cap to the hare at the finish line, with the fox howling. Its spine shows FG, while the back cover is a rather indistinct version of DS. The frontispiece has the crow with borrowed feathers appearing before the lion king. The printer is Whitefriars. The biggest surprise is that this volume itself offers "18 colour plates," while its dust jacket promises "20 colour plates by Harry Rountree." Might the discrepancy be resolved by counting among the color illustrations the two endpapers, each of which presents two fables in color? My, seven different levels of illustration for one book! I will confess that I did not take up the task of comparing the dust-jacket advertisements or internal advertisements for other similar books. I feared that the numbers games would drive me crazy! 224 pages. The book itself has "Ward Lock" at the base of its spine; the dust jacket, by contrast, has "Ward, Lock, & Co." Not in Bodemann.
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Ward, Lock, & Co.
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