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12 fables of Aesop.
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Aesop's fables. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fables.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Frasconi, Antonio (autograph) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Wescott, Glenway, 1901-1987 (autograph) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Blumenthal, Joseph, 1897-1990 (autograph) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 40 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [Limited edition].
- Other Title:
- Twelve fables of Aesop.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Museum of Modern Art, [1954]
- Contents:
- The starved farmer and his fat dogs
- The fishermen with the stone in their net
- The caged nightingale and the intelligent bat
- The man bitten by a flea
- The hare with ability and the tortoise with staying power
- The bee-keeper robbed and stung
- The ambitious woman and the fat hen
- The crab in the mouth of the fox
- The gnat, the lion, and the spiderweb
- The jackdaw with eclectic plumage
- The flattered raven and the crafty fox
- The stag in his own opinion.
- Notes:
- "Linoleum blocks by Antonio Frasconi to illustrate Twelve fables of Aesop newly narrated by Glenway Wescott."
- "This book, the first in a series of limited editions to be published by The Museum of Modern Art under the direction of Monroe Wheeler, has been designed and printed by Joseph Blumenthal at the Spiral Press, New York, on Rives mould-made paper ... The edition is limited to 975 numbered copies and 25 lettered review copies, all signed by Mr. Frasconi, Mr. Wescott and Mr. Blumenthal."
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy has portion of glassine wrapper, is housed in slip case and is 28 cm.
- Tehon Collection copy is no. 783 signed by Antonio Frasconi, Glenway Wescott and Joseph Blumenthal.
- OCLC:
- 1953917
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