Original Fables
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Prosser, Eleanor B.
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1870
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We have one copy of this book already in the collection, listed under "1873?" because it was inscribed then. By contrast, this copy is inscribed in 1871. Not in Bodemann. I can find nothing in Fabula Docet, Hobbs, Quinnam, McKendry, or Snodgrass. Google Books seem to claim an absolute date of 1870 for the first edition of the book. Our copy is identical with that online facsimile of 1870. I wrote of our "1873?" copy that I read five or six stories. They remind me of the poorest in the Aesopic collections. That is, they are either belabored or transparent. I did not find among them one where I would say, as I sometimes say with Aesop's, "Now there is a story worth remembering!" Wikipedia says this of the prolific Mrs. Prosser's books: "The books are generally exceedingly slim novellas or collections of short stories. They are not considered of the highest literary standard, and their stilted, moralizing tone is of a sort that the author Lewis Carroll lampooned." This copy has a loose spine covering. It was originally sold by Lewis & Sons in London. 248 pages. Google Books claims 295 pages, but its copy ends on 248.
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The Religious Tract Society
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12985 (Access ID)