Dandy Animal Fables (Black Back), 1971

File — Box: CFC Fables Cards Box 1

Identifier: CFC2018.0284.1-200

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Carlson Fable Collection is a gathering of primary fable materials at Reinert Alumni Memorial Library at Creighton University. It grew out of the personal collection of fable materials gathered by Rev. Gregory Carlson, S.J. and was given to the Creighton Libraries in 1996. There are more than 10,000 books and approximately 8,000 artifacts in the collection.

From plates to stamps, from cards to whiskey decanters, from toys to posters, you'll find just about anything you can imagine here. Please explore all that is to offer here in my fables Catalogue of Objects.

This is the largest online catalog of fable related objects on the internet. Many are from Aesop's Fables but you will find La Fontaine, Velazquez and Krylov also represented in this collection.

Dates

1971

Extent

200 Cards : Numbered set of 200. 1¾" x 2¾". Printed in Denmark. Vejle, Denmark: Dandy. ; 1¾" x 2¾"

Language of Materials

Danish

Additional Description

Abstract

These cards are divided into stories, with as many as twelve cards going to one story. Four titles (Danish, English, German, and French) at the top of the card introduce four brief texts in verse. The stories include various types, including Aesopic fable: FG (#13-18), BW (#19-25), "The Fox, the Lamb, and the Little Mouse" (#39-44), FS (#66-72), DS (#101-107), WL (#108-114), FK (#115-121), "The Bad Turn" ("The Bear and the Gardener," #121-128), "The Porcupine and the Hare" (#129-140), "The Mouse in the Cream" (#148-153), and OF (#197-200). Here the hare races a snail (#7-12). The frogs wanting a king appeal to King Lion. The bear that ends up killing the gardener is a young bear. "The Wolf and the Leg of Pork" (171-77) either is a fable or easily could become one. 1¾" x 2¾", with simple, colored cartoon-like illustrations. Here are two great scenes. The first (#126) shows the bear about the "protect" the gardener from the fly that bothers him. The second (#199) shows the frog blowing himself up to be as large as the ox.