Äsop Phädrus Babrios Lessing Fabeln
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Grundmann, Bearbeiter: Gunther
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1966
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I am delighted to have found this little book, since it was produced in a limited production of only 3000 copies. Might it have been printed as a gift of the firm for its friends? A note at the end of the book describes it as a "Privatdruck" of the firm for the "Jahreswende 1966/67." Bodemann calls the book a "Jahresgabe" and counts sixty-four prose fables. (Babrios and Phaedrus are actually presented as verse.) The book has a colorful dust-jacket illustration of the wild apple tree that is pictured in black-and-white late in the book. Bodemann counts sixteen black-and-white illustrations in the book itself. The book's specialty, I would say, is pointed, funny, short fables, especially from Lessing. For me, Lessing is always a pleasure, as when he tells the fable of the owl and the graverobber. The latter mocks the former for being the philosophical darling of Athene and yet eating mice in a ruined castle. The owl answers "Do you expect me to live on air? I notice that that is what you expect of your professors!" A dramatic composition of owl and human head faces this fable. Another telling illustration stretches across two pages to highlight Aesop's "The Farmer and His Sons." Another stimulating illustration presents the old and young women just above the hair that they are pulling out of the man while he thinks they are barbering him. The book closes with Lessing's "Aesop and the Ass" -- a great choice with a fine illustration across two pages. What a witty little book!
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Verlag Münstermann-Druck
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10740 (Access ID)