Aesop's Fables (pp. 32-33)

Aesop's Fables (pp. 32-33)

Animals -- Juvenile literature

Chapbook with uncolored woodcut illustrations.
Uncolored text and images printed.
This copy is in publisher's printed wrappers.
These pages depict the end of the application of the “Lion and Mouse,” tell the tale and application of “Eagle and Tortoise”, and begin the tale of “Ape and her young.” In the Eagle and Tortoise, the Tortoise begs the Eagle to teach him how to fly. Despite the Eagle explaining that this is against nature, Eagle took Tortoise into the air and then dropped him to his death. The application of this story is to understand limitations and consequences of unnatural actions.

44 pages : illustrations (woodcuts) , 13 cm

Alexander Anderson, 1775-1870

University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections

Samuel Wood & Sons

United States--New York--New York

1818

Nicole Sonett

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Scanned from original book at 200-400 dpi in JPEG format using a Plustek OpticPro A320, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2017.

English

Relief prints--woodcuts

Chapbook, image, text

stillimage
text

Children's Historical Literature Collection PZ8.2.A254 A14 1818