Author: Phaedrus
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199240951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Cameos showcase Tiberius in private and Augustus in court, with Pompey the Great on campaign and Phaedrus himself struggling against prejudice and persecution, and tales feature all sorts - a toadying slave, wicked servant, vain musician, effeminate soldier, sexy poet, and rogue quack. These forgotten tales tell short and clear Roman parables of power and powerlessness. Humorous and acute, they explain, and protest at, the Caesars, and they sit perfectly among Aesop's sadistic lions, murderous wolves, and apes in purple."--Jacket.
Telling Tales on Caesar
Author: Phaedrus
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199240951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Cameos showcase Tiberius in private and Augustus in court, with Pompey the Great on campaign and Phaedrus himself struggling against prejudice and persecution, and tales feature all sorts - a toadying slave, wicked servant, vain musician, effeminate soldier, sexy poet, and rogue quack. These forgotten tales tell short and clear Roman parables of power and powerlessness. Humorous and acute, they explain, and protest at, the Caesars, and they sit perfectly among Aesop's sadistic lions, murderous wolves, and apes in purple."--Jacket.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199240951
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Cameos showcase Tiberius in private and Augustus in court, with Pompey the Great on campaign and Phaedrus himself struggling against prejudice and persecution, and tales feature all sorts - a toadying slave, wicked servant, vain musician, effeminate soldier, sexy poet, and rogue quack. These forgotten tales tell short and clear Roman parables of power and powerlessness. Humorous and acute, they explain, and protest at, the Caesars, and they sit perfectly among Aesop's sadistic lions, murderous wolves, and apes in purple."--Jacket.
Emblem and Fable Books Printed in the Low Countries, 1542-1813
Author: Landwehr
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004614168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004614168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Works of John Dryden, Volume XV
Author: John Dryden
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052090530X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Volume XV contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, and Amphitryon.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052090530X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Volume XV contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: Albion and Albanius, Don Sebastian, and Amphitryon.
A Transcript of the Registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers, from 1640-1708 A.D.: 8 July 1675 to 7 March 1708
Author: Stationers' Company (London, England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Annales Phaedriani, 1596-1996
Author: R. W. Lamb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Phaedri Augusti Caesaris liberti Fabularum Aesopiarum libri quinque
Author: Phaedrus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fables
Languages : la
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fables
Languages : la
Pages : 208
Book Description
The French Booktrade and the "permission Simple" of 1777
Author: Robert L. Dawson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
In 1777 a series of royal decrees heralded the restructuring of the French booktrade. An important innovation was the creation of a public domain for certain kinds of books whose privil ge (or 'copyright') had expired. In order not to relinquish control over a vast category of books, the government decided to implement a new kind of printing and publishing permit - the 'permission simple'. As historian and bibliologist, the author examines the many issues involved in the implementation of the permit, explaining the circumstances that led to the creation of a public domain, the economic policies of the government with respect to the 'permission simple', and what exactly the procedures entailed. Other issues concerning the permit are also covered: edition runs; a number of illicit activities; the relationship of free trade, the physiocrats and Turgot to booktrade policies; the significance of Diderot's Lettre sur le commerce de la librairie. The study is largely based on hitherto unpublished sources and on books printed by virtue of the permit. Included in the volume is an edition of the 'permission simple' ledgers. This is the first time that the registers of an entire category of French books printed by virtue of a given authorisation have been published. They contain references to nearly two thousand editions - many today lost - of a wide variety of works. The entries are invaluable for the information they provide about the output of many important provincial printers and booksellers. Together the two registers provide a unique picture of French book production during the dozen years or so preceding the Revolution.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
In 1777 a series of royal decrees heralded the restructuring of the French booktrade. An important innovation was the creation of a public domain for certain kinds of books whose privil ge (or 'copyright') had expired. In order not to relinquish control over a vast category of books, the government decided to implement a new kind of printing and publishing permit - the 'permission simple'. As historian and bibliologist, the author examines the many issues involved in the implementation of the permit, explaining the circumstances that led to the creation of a public domain, the economic policies of the government with respect to the 'permission simple', and what exactly the procedures entailed. Other issues concerning the permit are also covered: edition runs; a number of illicit activities; the relationship of free trade, the physiocrats and Turgot to booktrade policies; the significance of Diderot's Lettre sur le commerce de la librairie. The study is largely based on hitherto unpublished sources and on books printed by virtue of the permit. Included in the volume is an edition of the 'permission simple' ledgers. This is the first time that the registers of an entire category of French books printed by virtue of a given authorisation have been published. They contain references to nearly two thousand editions - many today lost - of a wide variety of works. The entries are invaluable for the information they provide about the output of many important provincial printers and booksellers. Together the two registers provide a unique picture of French book production during the dozen years or so preceding the Revolution.
1675-1708
Author: Stationers' Company (London, England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart: A poetical traslation of the Fables of Phaedrus
Author: Christopher Smart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description