I.A. Krilov: The Monkey and the Spectacles: Fables (Russian)

Abstract

This is a fine little pamphlet containing three fables in its 16 pages. The illustrations are excellent and imaginative! The monkey frustrated with spectacles shows up in a full-page frame before the text of the first fable, on the back cover looking out a window with glasses in his hand, and on the last page above the publishing data, with glasses hooked from the frame around and above him. The swan, pike, and crab pull left, right, and up respectively on 8 and then look or walk off into those directions on 10. The monkey looks into the mirror on 11 and offers an opinion about what she sees to the bear on 12. On 14 she is pointing the finger at the characters of the other fables as they stand on the right-hand page above the T of C. She is also on the cover pointing down from her window at various human beings below her.