| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
95 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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age Children |
| Physical Medium |
regular print |
| Note |
The illustrations are facsimiles of the original prints in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
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Includes translations by Marianne Moore. |
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Text printed in red and black ink. |
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Fifteen thousand copies were printed. |
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Printed by the Spiral Press. |
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Offset lithography and dust jacket by The Meriden Gravure Company. |
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Binding by J.F. Tapley Company. |
| Summary |
Basically, the fables are didactic tales. The reader is supposed either to emulate or to beware of the behavior of the actors when faced with a similar situation. |
| Contents |
Fox and the grapes ; Ant and the grasshopper ; Hart, the sheep, and the wolf ; Dog and his shadow ; Frogs who wanted a king ; Lion and the horse ; Rat, the frog, and the kite ; Frog and the ox / translations adapted from William Caxton -- Ass and the boar ; Wolf and the lamb / translations by William Barret -- Eagle and the fox ; Fly ; Fox and the goat ; Hares and the frogs / translations adapted from William Bullokar -- Two crabs / translation by William Barret -- Lion and the mouse / translation by Sir Roger L'Estrange -- Fox and the crane ; Dog and the ox / translations by Thomas Philipott -- Fox and the carved head ; Swan and the stork / translations by Sir Roger L'Estrange -- Lioness and the fox / translation by Samuel Croxall -- Viper and the file / translation by Edmund Arwaker -- Town mouse and the country mouse / translation by Robert Dodsley -- Wolves and the sheep / translation by Robert Thomson -- Crow and the pitcher / translation by Thomas Bewick -- Stag and his antlers / translation by Sir Brooke Boothby -- Fox without a tail / translation by Walter Thornbury -- Ape and the dolphin / translation by J.F. Byrne -- Sick stag / translation by Elizur Wright, Jr. -- Hare and the tortoise ; Mice in council / translations by Thomas James -- Wolf in shepherd's clothing / translation by Elizur Wright, Jr. -- Birds, the beasts, and the bat ; Owl and the birds / translations by V.S. Vernon Jones -- Wolf and the crane / translation by William E.C. Leonard -- Camel and the driftwood / translation by Eunice Clark -- Fox and the crow ; Jay in peacock's feathers / translations by Marianne Moore -- Lion in love (abridged) / translation by Eunice Clark -- Cock and the pearl / translation by Marianne Moore. |
| Local Note |
Metropolitan Museum of Art Watson Library Digital Collections Fulltext Titles (Customizable) |
| Subject |
Aesop's fables -- Illustrations.
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Aesop's fables. |
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Aesop's fables -- Adaptations.
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| Genre/Form |
Adaptations.
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| Subject |
Aesop's fables. |
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Fables, Greek -- Adaptations.
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Fables, Greek -- Adaptations. |
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Fables, Greek -- Illustrations.
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Fables, Greek. |
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Fables. |
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Folklore. |
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Animals -- Folklore. |
| Genre/Form |
Illustrated works.
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Folklore -- Juvenile.
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Fables.
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Fables.
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Fables.
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Adaptations.
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| Added Author |
McKendry, John J., editor.
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Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972, translator.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Spiral Press.
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Meriden Gravure Company.
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J.F. Tapley Co.
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| Added Title |
Aesop's fables. Selections. English. https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98020457
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Aesop's fables. English. Aesop. [1st ed. New York] : Metropolitan Museum of Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn., ©1964 (OCoLC)562136830 |
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Online version: Aesop's fables. English. Aesop. [1st ed. New York] : Metropolitan Museum of Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn., ©1964 (OCoLC)606169783 |
| Standard No. |
PML 151767 JPW 5625 |
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