Fables Illustrated by Stories from Real Life
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Cupples, George
Greenaway, John (engraver)
Weir, Harrison (translator)
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1883
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Thirty-three stories with well selected, well told didactic parallels. The pattern includes a fable, moral, illustration, and story. Stories X, XXI, and XXVIII have no modern parallels. The text contains many ever so phrases. WL (VIII) bears reading; its modern parallel stops short of the final catastrophe. The Wolf and the Lion (IX) is typical. The Miser and Plutus (XIV), new to me and not strong, features a second modern instance, the story of a bizarre barking millionaire. In XVII, many mice run over the lion; the caught mouse pleads Don't stain a noble character like yours by eating a puny mouse. BF (XXII) has both a good illustration and a good parallel. The Mouse and the Frog (XXIX) is different: the frog, a good friend, fears that the mouse will fall into some hole. CP (XXX) also has good parallel stories. At least several illustrations are by Weir (e.g., the frontispiece, engraved by John Greenaway, and 156). Some are standard Weir (e.g., 146), but others (e.g., 76), if by Weir, depart from his standard work. Many other illustrations seem to be by the team of Small and Morison. There are nicely embossed illustrations of The Thief and the Dog on the book's cover and of a cheese-eating monkey on its spine. I find a problem with the book's announced count of thirty-six illustrations. FG lacks an illustration here, presumably because FG was the frontispiece in the first edition and had no illustration with the FG fable. The illustration for DS is here repeated in larger format as the frontispiece. There is a second illustration added to the final fable, MSA. Thus I get thirty-one fables illustrated with a single illustration, one fable with two, and a frontispiece for a total of thirty-four illustrations, not thirty-six. Might the two illustrations on the cover and spine count?
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T. Nelson and Sons
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1730 (Access ID)