Neuere Deutsche Fabeln

Abstract

This book is uniform in series with several others I have but they seem to have different bibliographical data, including publisher: Alfo Kunstdruck Verlag in Kaiserslautern. From them I have Fabeln von La Fontaine, Fabeln nach Äsop, and Deutsche Fabeln aus dem 16. und 18. Jahrhundert von Luther und Lessing. This book has the same canvas binding and the same striped cover format with a picture at the center. Like them, it has 32 pages. The colors of the cover-picture here are not calibrated: blue/green stands to the right of the other colors instead of reinforcing them. The editor remains the same. The illustrator changes. The title-page declares that this is Band 6 but I am not sure yet what series it belongs to. There is a T of C with titles but no authors at the beginning. The color work for the fourteen fables here is simple and very pleasing. Each fable's text is on the left-hand page with a colored illustration on the right-hand page and underneath it a simple sketch, often of a different phase of the fable. The best of the illustrations may be Der Esel und die Dohle on 7; it is the illustration that is less successful on the cover. Fabulists included here are Hagedorn, Lichtwer, Gleim, Zachariä, Wilamow, Pfeffel, Herder, Hey, Fröhlich, Ebner-Eschenbach, Busch, Seidel, and Leixner. The Busch poem included is Pater Leutenstorfer's favorite, Der Volle Sack.