Research Catalog

Title

Aesop : five centuries of illustrated fables / selected by John J. McKendry.

Publication

• [New York] : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [1964]
• Greenwich, Connecticut : New York Graphic Society
• ©1964

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Details

Additional Authors

• McKendry, John J.
• Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972
• Oldenburg, Peter, 1916-1990
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
• Spiral Press.
• Meriden Gravure Company.
• J.F. Tapley Co.

Description

95 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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.

Uniform Title

Aesop's fables. Selections. English.

Subjects

• Fables, Greek
• Fables
• Fables, Greek > Adaptations
• Adaptations
• Fables, Greek > Illustrations
• Illustrated works
• Aesop's fables > Illustrations
• Aesop's fables > Adaptations

Genre/Form

• Adaptations.
• Fables.
• Illustrated works.

Note

• The illustrations are facsimiles of the original prints in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Includes translations by Marianne Moore.
• Text printed in red and black ink.
• Fifteen thousand copies were printed.
• Designed by Peter Oldenburg.
• Printed by the Spiral Press.
• Offset lithography and dust jacket by The Meriden Gravure Company.
• Binding by J.F. Tapley Company.

Contents

The fox and the grapes ; The ant and the grasshopper ; The hart, the sheep, and the wolf ; The dog and his shadow ; The frogs who wanted a king ; The lion and the horse ; The rat, the frog, and the kite ; The frog and the ox / translations adapted from William Caxton -- The ass and the boar ; The wolf and the lamb / translations by William Barret -- The eagle and the fox ; The fly ; The fox and the goat ; The hares and the frogs / translations adapted from William Bullokar -- The two crabs / translation by William Barret -- The lion and the mouse / translation by Sir Roger L'Estrange -- The fox and the crane ; The dog and the ox / translations by Thomas Philipott -- The fox and the carved head ; The swan and the stork / translations by Sir Roger L'Estrange -- The lioness and the fox / translation by Samuel Croxall -- The viper and the file / translation by Edmund Arwaker -- The town mouse and the country mouse / translation by Robert Dodsley -- The wolves and the sheep / translation by Robert Thomson -- The crow and the pitcher / translation by Thomas Bewick -- The stag and his antlers / translation by Sir Brooke Boothby -- The fox without a tail / translation by Walter Thornbury -- The ape and the dolphin / translation by J.F. Byrne -- The sick stag / translation by Elizur Wright, Jr. -- The hare and the tortoise ; The mice in council / translations by Thomas James -- The wolf in shepherd's clothing / translation by Elizur Wright, Jr. -- The birds, the beasts, and the bat ; The owl and the birds / translations by V.S. Vernon Jones -- The wolf and the crane / translation by William E.C. Leonard -- The camel and the driftwood / translation by Eunice Clark -- The fox and the crow ; The jay in peacock's feathers / translations by Marianne Moore -- The lion in love (abridged) / translation by Eunice Clark -- The cock and the pearl / translation by Marianne Moore.

LCCN

• 64020409
• PML 151767

OCLC

• ocm00760725
• 760725

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries