Molly Brett: The Medici Society, 1940

File — Box: CFC Postcards Box 1

Identifier: CFC2018.0319

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

1940

Extent

4 Cards : From Aesop's Fables. Four full-color cards each presenting one fable. Numbered 166 through 169. London: The Medici Society. ; 3½" x 5½".

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

I have found these four Brett cards from three different sources. The cards have an unusual feature. Brett's art takes up at least the upper half of the picture side of each card, with several figures from the story at the very bottom. In between one finds a title and the first few verses of the fable, finishing each time with three dots . . . which lead to the rest of the text on the verso. Are there more cards in the series? I find two particularly charming elements here. One has to do with the cow at the end of DM: "…without a doubt,/She lowered her horns and--tossed him out." One can see the dog at the lower right twirling through the air. Can one make out that the fox at the bottom of FG is breathing heavily?

Immediate Source of Acquisition

FG for $2 from Jim Hawkins, Kansas City, Kansas, through Ebay, Feb., '01. TMCM and TH for £10 each from Unicorn Books, Middlesex, through ABE, Jan., 01. DM for $5 from Mike Marsland, Cheshire, England, through Ebay, Jan., '01.