Fabulas de Tomas de Iriarte

Abstract

A large-format book with sixty-eight fables. (A good project sometime would be to find out why Iriarte editions end up with different numbers of fables: 66 and 76 seem most frequent. Which ones did this edition put in or leave out?) The front cover features a strong colored presentation of the dressed-up monkey and the parrot. Each fable inside has one black-and-white illustration of one-third to one-half a page; then there is an animal image at the end of those that leave some space on the page. Among the best illustrations are those for El Mono y el Titiritero (11), La Mona (41), El Naturalista y las Lagartijas (93), and El Volatin y su Maestro (99). The illustrations are either crude or smudged or both. It is unusual to get a book on fables from this corner of the world at this time!