The Mother's Fables in Verse, A New Edition, To Which Is Added (for the first time) Tales and Fables in Verse
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Aveline, E.L.
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1861
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The preface to this new edition speaks of the popularity of The Mother's Fables on their first publication nearly half a century earlier. Each of the twenty-eight pieces in the first section (The Mother's Fables) is a double piece. A child does something, and mother responds by telling a fable that fits the action of the child. Thus the first story is The Mimic, within which mother tells The Mocking Bird. Her child should stop making fun of others or she--like the mocking bird--will have no friends. The third story is pictured in the frontispiece. In it a young man who thinks he has learned everything hears from his mother the story The Partridge and Her Young in which one young partridge tries, against his mother's will, to fly too soon. Obedience seems to be the all-encompassing virtue here! The second section (Tales and Fables in Verse) includes among its forty-nine items several attributed to others like Gellert. There seem to be many moral stories here to which one can easily append a sub-title naming a virtue. Thus one item is named The Antelope and has the subtitle Curiosity. The antelope is escaping the wolf until she gets curious about what kind of animal he is. The last few lines have the poet bidding farewell to the wretched antelope as curiosity's victim. There are only a few illustrations along the way. The extra copy shows several differences. Most importantly, it was printed not by Harrild in London but by the Camden Press in London. It has a brown rather than a purple cloth cover, though the gold imprint is the same. The bottom third of the spine is missing, and the back cover is loose.
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James Hogg & Sons
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4003 (Access ID)