Picture Fables
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Hey, F.
Dulcken, Henry W.
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1864
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This book is largely a reprint of an 1858 version in our collection. As is true there, several fables touch on Aesopic material (e.g., "The Bat and the Bird" on 36 and "Thief and Dog" on 86). There is a lovely frontispiece of life with the animals. The best feature might be the drawings of inanimate objects: ham and sausage on 51 and a jug and a pail on 53. The twelve-line tellings are trite and saccharin; the characters tend to be humans rather than beasts. Anne Stevenson Hobbs has remarked that these are really not fable material, and I tend to agree with her. The etchings by Speckter here are different from those in the original German. Is F. Hey related to Wilhelm Hey, who did the original texts? See a later version of this book in 1864. This 1864 printing shows a significant range of differences, none touching the fables and illustrations themselves. Thus it has a different cover decoration and spine arrangement and new red ink on the title-page and the page before it. The address in NY has changed, and now Camden Press prints this copy. There is new color in the print and decoration of the preface. The paper in this printing has not lasted as well. There is some amateurish coloring of the illustrations in this 1864 copy.
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Routledge, Warne, and Routledge
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12531 (Access ID)