Aesop's fables :: with a life of Aesop /

In 1489 Johan Hurus printed the first collection of fables in Spain, Lavida del Ysopetconsusfabulas hystoriadas. Illustrated with nearly 200 woodcuts, this work quickly became the most-read book in Spain, beloved of both children and adults. Reprinted many times in the next three centuries and carri...

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Other Authors: Aesop, Keller, John Esten, Keating, L. Clark (Louis Clark), 1907-1991
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Spanish
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1993.
Series:Studies in Romance languages (Lexington, Ky.) ; 34.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:In 1489 Johan Hurus printed the first collection of fables in Spain, Lavida del Ysopetconsusfabulas hystoriadas. Illustrated with nearly 200 woodcuts, this work quickly became the most-read book in Spain, beloved of both children and adults. Reprinted many times in the next three centuries and carried to the New World, it brought to Spanish letters a cornucopia of Aesopic fables, oriental apologues, and folktales that were borrowed by such writers as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, and especially the fabulists Iriarte and Samaniego. John Keller and Clark Keating now present the first English transla.
Item Description:Translated from the Spanish edition printed by Johan Hurus: La vida del Ysopet con sus fabulas hystoriadas. Zaragoza?, 1489.
Physical Description:1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-236) and index.
ISBN:9780813158730
0813158737
0813185157
9780813185156

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