Abstract These colorful presentations of animal scenes with aphorisms attributed to Aesop. The illustrations are true Milo Winter, regularly charming. Sometimes a fable's original scene and character appear, as in WL (March) TH (November). Others create scenes to illustrate standard Aesopic morals, as wehn September features a straw held before a cart-pulling donket with "Gentle persuasion is better than blows," more normally associated with WS. Here twelve different advertisers are featured as...

Abstract These are colorful presentations of animal scenes with aphorisms drawn from or like those of Aesop. The illustrations are true Milo Winter, often quite cute and often presenting a fable in different characters and circumstances from the usual. Brown and Bigelow styles themselves as "Specialists in Direct Mail Advertising." Aesop is acknowledged in this set only on the introduction card. One wonders if the card belonged to a different card. One wonders if the card belonged to a different...

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...

Abstract This is surely one of the more curious parts of the collection! Fortunately, there has been little attempt to do what the instructions on the inside back cover, as featured in Bertrand's photo below, call for: rubbing the apparently empty inside pages to find each revealing a fable of La Fontaine. Clever attempts on my scanner have failed to make the outlines of these images appear without rubbing the pages. I will certainly take Bertrand's word for it that these two pamphlets are rare,...

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The fable here tells of a group of lions that went crazy as they were assaulted by a cloud of gnats. Then the Black Lion appeared and sprayed them all away. The artistry is quite nice in this four-page pamphlet.

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These two slips combine elements this collection has encountered before: hidden images and frictography. Surprises keep coming! I am so tempted to “violate” these ephemeral treasures by trying to bring out their pictures!

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It is easy to find Gobey laxatives on the web and many humorous cards they produced for their laxative syrup, meant particularly for children, young women, and older people. These cards to color do not show up among them. For me, the best of these three is the one that a young hand started to imitate but got only as far as some orange and a very little bit of brown. The coloration and facial expressions are particularly well done in this colored scene.