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Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables

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Excerpt from Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated FablesThe fables of Aesop are the only text that has been illustrated so often, so diversely, and so continuously that the history of the printed illustrated book can be shown by them alone. Illustrated Bibles outnumber the fables, but the sacred text imposes a more hieratic and less varied approach. Ovid's Metamorphoses accounts for a great number of illustrated books, but this classical author has suffered many periods of neglect. The fables' combina tion of freedom of approach and constant appeal has kept them steadily popular as a subject for book illustration from the fifteenth century to the present.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.… (más)
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With my Aesop project, begun this past December, drawing to a close, and only a few more titles on my to-be-read list, I think it rather fitting that this collection - illustrated with prints taken from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art - should come towards the end of the process. The forty fables presented here - along with their accompanying woodcuts, etchings, engravings, metal cuts, drawings, and linoleum cuts - are taken from a diverse range of editions, from the William Caxton translation of 1484, to that done by Marianne Moore in 1954. Arranged chronologically, they provide a succinct history of Aesop in English, and trace the evolution of book illustration after the adoption of the printing press.

Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables highlights the fact that these short tales have been popular in every age, and have been presented in many guises. It also points to the reality that despite the ubiquity of his fables, there is no such person as "Aesop the author," as "his" stories come to us through the work of others. Finally, as McKendry rightly notes in his introduction, the fables are fixed in neither time nor place, and therefore lend themselves to endless retelling and reinterpretation.

I enjoyed this collection, even when I didn't particularly relish the archaic English of some of the selections, and finished it with a renewed determination to read the poetry of Babrius and Phaedrus - two classical authors whose works constitute some of the earliest extant adaptations of that master (and semi-apocryphal) fabulist known as Aesop. ( )
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Excerpt from Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated FablesThe fables of Aesop are the only text that has been illustrated so often, so diversely, and so continuously that the history of the printed illustrated book can be shown by them alone. Illustrated Bibles outnumber the fables, but the sacred text imposes a more hieratic and less varied approach. Ovid's Metamorphoses accounts for a great number of illustrated books, but this classical author has suffered many periods of neglect. The fables' combina tion of freedom of approach and constant appeal has kept them steadily popular as a subject for book illustration from the fifteenth century to the present.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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