A Bölcs Esopusnak
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Heltai, Gaspar
Keleti, Arthur
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1943
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There is much to say about this beautiful book of 100 fables and 31 strong woodcuts. It comes to the collection from Erlesenes Antiquariat & Buchhandlung in Vienna, a bookshop whose trademark is the fox seeking "select" grapes. I had a lovely encounter there, including a trip to their storage space. Joy Antoni at first could not find this book, advertised on the net. Towards the end of my time there, she discovered it. She had been repairing the label on its front cover! Some things are not clear to me. Are the woodcuts patterned on a Remondini edition Aesopi phrygis et aliorum fabulae? Were the woodcuts done with Heltai's original edition in 1566 or sometime in the 18th century? These woodcuts are in any case strong and simple. Among the best are the title-page illustration found again on 55. Notice the artist's struggle with the face of a lion on 67. I believe that the original publisher was Diosgyor Paper Mill. Gaspar Heltai was apparently a polymath: preacher, bible translator, and writer on many subjects. Some of the pages are as yet uncut. This is not the only recent publication of Heltai's fables. I am trying to get my hands on the other recent versions.
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Tevan Printing and Publishing Company
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12395 (Access ID)