Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Date Published: 1990-09-01
ISBN-13:9780877017806ISBN:0877017808
Description: Fair. Two corners have been chewed on by the dog. The pages are untouched. The binding is tight and square. Your Satisfaction is Guaranteed! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: San Francisco: Chronicle Books,
Date Published: (1990).
ISBN-13:9780877017806ISBN:0877017808
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. A Classic Illustrated Edition compiled by Russell Aash and Bernard Higton. Fine illustrated paper covered boards with maroon title to spine. Fine illustrated dust jacket with white spine panel and maroon title to spine. 95 pages. CHIL/100509. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780877017806ISBN:0877017808
Description: BRAND NEW HARDCOVER. 11.2 by 8 inches. [allow 1-2 weeks transit to europe]. (00096 pages) illustrated lang=english accessory: no accessory (Hardcover ) read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: CHRONICLE BOOKS
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780877017806ISBN:0877017808
Description: New. This delightful selection of Aesop's parables--some of them universally recognizable, others refreshignly unfamiliar--is magnificently complemented by illustrations taken from a variety of antique editions. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Date Published: 1990-09-01
ISBN-13:9780877017806ISBN:0877017808
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"It was neat to read this for the historical aspect but more than a few of these were kind of hard to follow, or at least find the moral. It was kind of like reading the Dao."
"This book talks about different stories dealing with morals of societies everyday life experiences. It has good illustrations for children to view or gain an idea sense of what/where our morals come from. I really liked how each story matched the moral staying, example would be the ""
"This Aesop collection, edited by Russell Ash and Bernard Higton, presents fifty-three of the classic fables, accompanied by illustrations taken from various Aesop editions of the last 150 years. Here the reader will encounter old favorites, liked The Fox and the Grapes and The Lion and the Mouse, as well as many lesser-known selections like The Piping Fisherman and The Fox and the Masks.
The artwork is taken from volumes ranging in date from the 1857 edition illustrated by Charles Henry Bennett to the 1970 volume illustrated by Edward Bawden. Other artists include: Milo Winter, Alexander Calder, Boris Artzybasheff, Walter Crane, Arthur Rackham, and Randolph Caldecott.
This was a fascinating volume, not so much for the fables themselves - all of which I had encountered before - but for the insight it gives into the various ways in which Aesop has been envisioned by illustrators over the course of more than a century. Twenty-nine artists are represented, in all, and their work ranges from the Art Nouveau to a "nursery" style. Some of my personal favorites: Arthur Rackham's Venus and the Cat, Walter Crane's The Peacock's Complaint, and Ernest Henry Griset's The Wolf and the Crane."
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