Aesop's Fables Together with the Life of Aesop.
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Bachet, Claude-Gaspard
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1897
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This was one of the first books in my collection. I have come back to look at it again after reviewing a number of Dodsley editions, including the first in 1761 and Crukshank's in 1798. See my comments on those two books. In an earlier review of this book, two curiosities struck me. I will try to work one out and add another. The first surprise to me was the announcement of the moral before the fable. Yes, this is new in the Dodsley tradition, in which the morals were given in a group at the end of the book. Of course I cannot be sure that this Rand McNally edition was the very first edition to use this format. Secondly, the life of Aesop presented here is indeed identical with that presented in Dodsley's first edition. The new curiosity is that Dodsley's fables are here joined by others, like GA (210) and BS (232), which were not in Dodsley. That gives rise to a nice new question that I cannot go after now: Where did these texts come from?
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Rand McNally
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68 (Access ID)