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| Title | Aesop's Fables (p. 15) |
| Author | Aesop |
| Publisher | Samuel Wood & Sons
Samuel S. Wood & Company
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| Publisher Location | United States--New York--New York
United States--Maryland--Baltimore |
| Publication Date | 1818 |
| Printer | Wood, Samuel, 1760-1844
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| Illustrator | Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870
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| Image Production Process | Relief prints--wood engravings
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| Notes | Chapbook with uncolored wood engravings.
Illustrates the fable "The Fox and the Grapes."
This copy is incomplete and shows the sewing broken along one edge of the page. |
| Contextual Notes | After the Bible, perhaps the oldest text to be shared by adults with their children is that of Aesop's Fables. Most sources describe Aesop as a former Greek slave living in the 6th century BC (Herodotus). The fables attributed to Aesop were passed down through oral tradition. Perhaps Socrates did spend his time in jail turning them into verse (Plato). They were translated from the Greek to Latin by Phaedrus. We do know that there is a drawing of Aesop in the Nuremberg Chronicle and that William Caxton, the first English printer, produced a copy of Aesop's Fables in the 15th century. The use of personified animals and the separate moral at the end of each tale are very familiar to children of every generation as the tales continue to appear in new versions today. |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Animals -- Juvenile literature |
| Category | Chapbooks
Fables
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| Language | English |
| Digital Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection |
| Digital ID Number | CHL0428 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection, Microcards |
| Object Type | Chapbook
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| Physical Description | [incomplete] 8 p.: illustrated; 13 x 7 cm. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original book at 400-600 dpi in TIFF format using a ScanMaker 6800, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2008. |
| Exhibit Checklist | Exhibit checklist 3.8 |
