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Kuthan, Rudolf
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1941
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134 pages. The cover presents Aesop as a potbellied bald older gentleman seated on the "tail" of the large "E" beginning his name, with a fox at his side and a crow looking down on him. Clever! The same Aesop sits among animals in the frontispiece, which ÔÇô like several of the earliest line drawings ÔÇô has been nicely hand-colored with crayon. There are here 72 numbered fables plus 14, and the first text may be a preface from Babrius. There is a T of C at the end. Each fable gets one or two strong line-drawings. Among the best are the two for "The Horse and the Mule" (16-17). Other good illustrations include those for "The Bull and the Flea" (56); FK (104-5); and TB (112-13). Typical of Laichter's work are the illustrations for SW, both pairs nicely separated by text (25-26). The pages of this fragile book are loose and loosening. I cannot help but ask what it would have been like to be in Prague in 1941! After cataloguing this book, I discovered that we have a canvas-bound version already in the collection. That copy lacks the colorful front cover here and the hand-coloring of the early illustrations.
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─îesk├í grafick├í spole─ınost " UNIE "
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