Fables and Parables from the German of Lessing, Herder, Gellert, Meissner, etc. and Fables Selected from Croxall, Dodsley, etc. (cover: Select Fables Ancient and Modern)
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Croxall, Samuel
Dodsley, Robert
Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott,
Herder, Johann Gottfried,
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Meissner, A.G.
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1846 , 1846?
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Two volumes in one, separately paginated. The spine is crumbling. The first volume is especially helpful for its 112 English versions of German fables on 72 pages. They have no detached morals. The first 72 fables are from Lessing. There is a full-page frontispiece illustration of The Traveller and the Skylark and a half-page illustration of the first fable, The Apparition. Especially valuable for their translations are the following fables: The Apparition (#1), The Ass and the Fox (#6), The Nightingale and the Hawk (#11), The Wasps (#16), The Dogs (#20), The Young Swallow (#23), The Lion and the Tiger (#25), The Blind Hen (#38), The Stag and the Fox (#55), The Thorn (#56), and The Poet and the Peasant (#88). Many of those after Lessing seem to be either a retelling of La Fontaine or a long sermon. There is a good full-page frontispiece to the second volume, The Farmer and the Stag. The telling and illustration are unusual, since this fable usually involves the hiding and revealing of a smaller animal, like a fox or wolf. This second volume contains 122 fables on 72 pages. New to me among these English fables are The Court of Death (37), in which Intemperance is chosen as prime minister of Death, and The Dervise (38), which asks pointedly what the difference is between a castle and an inn. There is a T of C at the beginning of each volume. There are eighteen pages of advertisements at the back of the whole book.
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James Burns
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3751 (Access ID)