

The fables of Aesop, in Scots verse. Retold by Robert Stephen; illustrated by Helen Wheaton
by Aesop, 6th century BC
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- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0951245902
- ISBN 13
- 9780951245903
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Peterhead (Aberdeenshire): Aulton Press, 1987 *** ONLY EDITION IN MODERN SCOTS; COMPRISING TWENTY-SIX FABLES IN NORTHEAST-DIALECT VERSE, with a preface by Billy Kay and a Scots-English glossary. Wheaton's illustrations are quite delightful: Several of them show frogs in kilts or playing the bagpipes, a tortoise in a tam-o'-shanter, &c; another incorporates the aurora borealis. The poet Robert Strachan Stephen (b. 1949) afterwards published By the shores o' Galilee: Stories from the Gospels in Scots verse (1989); In the beginning: Stories from the Old Testament in Scots verse (1991), and Troll tales (1999). The Aulton Press is apparently his private imprint; and this is its first book. *** Out of print, and already quite SCARCE. Only two other copies are known in America. -- References: CAIRNS; Carlson; COPAC; OCLC 16472225. . First edition.. Publisher's glazed pictorial b. 280 x 210 mm: Pp [i-viii], 1-86 [87-88]. Eight col.
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- Bookseller
- Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000201
- Title
- The fables of Aesop, in Scots verse. Retold by Robert Stephen; illustrated by Helen Wheaton
- Author
- Aesop, 6th century BC
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0951245902
- ISBN 13
- 9780951245903
- Publisher
- Aulton Press
- Place of Publication
- Peterhead (Aberdeenshire)
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Aesop Aesopus Esop Esopus Aisopos Fables Fabulae Mythoi Scots Scottish Scotch Scotland English language dialects dialect translation translations
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