Shelfmark
Kc.5.07(01)
Author
Title
Three hundred Aesop's fables / literally translated from the Greek by the Rev. Geo. Fyler Townsend, M.A. ; with six full-page colored plates and one hundred and fourteen wood cuts designed by Harrison Weir.
Publication, distribution, etc.
New York : George Routledge & Sons, Limited, [c. 1900?]
Physical description
xxxii, 224 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. (6 col.) ; 20 cm.
Note
Undated; date of publication inferred from inscription in ECL copy.
Note
On t.p. verso: The Caxton Press, New York.
Note
Publisher's pictorial cloth case binding printed in yellow and green with illustration of 'The fox and the crow'.
With note
With: Speckter, Otto. One hundred picture fables with rhymes. New York: George Routledge & Sons, Limited, [n.d.]
Provenance
Edward Gordon Craig collection.
Provenance
Inscribed in red ink on front flyleaf by Ellen Terry to her grandson Robin (the second child and first son of her son Edward Gordon Craig and his first wife May Craig, née Gibson): Dear Bobs - from Baba, New Years Day, America, 1902.
Provenance
Inscribed inside front cover: 'Peter' and 'Rosy'.
Provenance
Pencil monogram E.T. [i.e. Ellen Terry] inside front cover.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: wanting pp. 1-16 of main pagination [i.e. all before 'The ass, the fox, and the lion'].
Subject
Fables, Greek Translations into English.
Subject
Fables Juvenile literature.
Added entry--name
Townsend, George Fyler, 1814 - 1900 translator.
Added entry--name
Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872 - 1966 former owner.
Added entry--name
Weir, Harrison, 1824 - 1906 illustrator.
Added entry--name
Terry, Ellen, 1847 - 1928 former owner.
Added entry--name
George Routledge and Sons publisher.
Added entry--place
United States New York.
Identifier
B46403