[Ads-l] Where are the PC police?

[Robin Hamilton]

There's this, for a complete text:

      https://archive.org/stream/remarkablestoryo00bostiala#page/n0/mode/2up

It doesn't show up on an obvious google (or internal Internet Archive) search,
as John Greene Chandler's name has been removed in the course of  (various?)
reprinting(s), but you can get to it via the title.

Not the original 1840 edition, where the illustrations are in colour, but as far
as I can make out, otherwise identical.

I'm not absolutely sure, as I've never managed to get my eyes near a proper
first edition to check it against, but probably good enough for government work.

(Thinking about it, I'm not even absolutely sure that the illustrations
originally *were* in colour.  I've seen images like that, but they may have been
coloured after the fact.)

Actually, comparing the text from the link above, with the images Garson links
to below, they seem (a) to be, with the exception that Chandler's name is
obliterated from the cover of the reprint, identical, and (b) to my untrained
eye, the colours in the americanantiquarian images look as if they were
hand-painted onto/into an originally penny-plain text.

Which is what would more likely be found at a country fair, which was where
Chandler sold it first.

Robin

(Who unlike Garson, managed to totally misremember the date.  With the correct
date of 1840, Chandler beats the first printing of the Scottish version by two
years, and takes the crown.  More, possibly, if the longer [abominably prolix]
MS version which lies behind the printed text was written substantially
earlier.)

Incidentally, there's a raft of versions, including the 1849 Halliwell-Phillipps
one, here:

        http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type2033.html#chambers1841

The Scottish version should [but doesn't] carry a health-warning.  It's, to put
it mildly, "translated" into English.  On the whole, I really like Ashliman's
site, both here and beyond the issue at hand, but in that instance ... words
fail me.    :-(

R.

> 
>     On 18 September 2016 at 04:14 ADSGarson O'Toole
> <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Back in 2010 I mentioned that "Google Books contains a document titled
>     'Remarkable Story of Chicken Little' by John Greene Chandler dated
>     1840 but it cannot be examined because there is 'No preview
>     available'."
> 
>     Robin just sent me (off-list) some additional bibliographical data
>     about this 1840 edition.
> 
>     Now, I see that American Antiquarian Society based in Worcester,
>     Massachusetts has an "extremely rare first edition" from 1840, and
>     they have posted scans of a few pages.
> 
>     http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/View/7/fig7_7.htm
> 
>    http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Inpursuit/case8/case8_11.htm
> 
>     There is a downloadable PDF at the second link that contains a few
>     pages. Here is the story text on the pages. Please double-check for
>     errors. The main plot event: A leaf fell on the tail of Chicken
>     Little.
> 
>     [Begin text of page 1]
>     Did you ever hear of Chicken Little, how she disturbed a whole
>     neighborhood by her foolish alarm?
>     [End text]
> 
>     [Begin text of page 2]
>     Well, Chicken Little was running about in a gentleman's garden, where
>     she had no business to be: she ran under a rose-bush, and a leaf fell
>     on her tail; so she was dreadfully frightened, and ran away to Hen
>     Pen.
>     [End excerpt]
> 
>     Page 3 and subsequent pages are not displayed on the website of the
>     American Antiquarian Society. The text below is from a later section
>     of the story. It contains the key phrase "the sky is falling". This
>     text was displayed in the back cover, I think.
> 
>     [Begin text (located on back cover, I think)]
>     "O Duck Luck!" says Hen Pen, "the sky is falling." "How do you know
>     it?" says Duck Luck. "Chicken Little told me." "Chicken Little, how do
>     you know it?" "O, I saw it with my eyes, I heard it with my ears, and
>     part of it fell on my tail. O, come, let us run!"
>     [End text]
> 
>     Garson
> 
> 
> 

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