Shelfmark
Kc.5.07(02)
Author
Uniform title
[Fünfzig Fabeln für Kinder. English]
Title
One hundred picture fables with rhymes / by Otto Speckter ; with four full-page colored plates and one hundred woodcuts.
Publication, distribution, etc.
New York : George Routledge & Sons, Limited, [18--]
Physical description
110, [2] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (4 col.) ; 20 cm.
Note
Undated.
Note
Translations of the author's Fünfzig Fabeln für Kinder and his Noch fünfzig Fabel. für Kinder.
Note
Illustrations engraved by the Brothers Dalziel (cf. Preface).
Note
Final leaf of publisher's advertisements for 'A new series of the best books for young people ... Young people's library'.
Note
Publisher's pictorial cloth case binding printed in yellow and green with title 'Aesop's fables' and illustration of 'The fox and the crow'.
With note
With: Three hundred Aesop's fables literally translated from the Greek by ... Geo. Fyler Townsend ... [illustrated] by Harrison Weir.. New York: George Routledge & Sons, Limited, [n.d.]
Provenance
Edward Gordon Craig collection.
Provenance
Inscribed in red ink on front flyleaf of volume 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.
Subject
Fables, German Translations into English.
Subject
Fables Juvenile literature.
Subject
Children's poetry, German Translations into English.
Added entry--name
Townsend, George Fyler, 1814 - 1900 translator.
Added entry--name
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
Hey, Wilhelm, 1789 - 1858 Noch fünfzig Fabeln. English
Added entry--name
Dalziel, George, 1815 - 1902 engraver.
Added entry--name
Dalziel, Edward, 1817 - 1905 engraver.
Added entry--name
George Routledge and Sons publisher.
Added entry--place
United States New York.
Identifier
B46405