The Tales and Stories of Ispirescu by Petre Ispirescu - 1977

Bucharest: Ion Creanga Publishing House, 1977. Third printing. Pictorial Boards, Cloth Spine. Good. Murrays Childrens Books. Undated. Yellow cloth spine with black lettering. Pictorial board covers. Lovely colour and black and white illustrations by Done Stan. Petre Ispirescu (January 1830 ñ 21 November 1887) was a Romanian printer and publicist. Born in Bucharest, his parents wanted him to be a priest and he was entrusted to study with a monk at the Metropolitan Church, after he studied with a priest at the Doamna B?la?a Church. He quit in 1844 and became a worker at the Carcalchi printing house and later at the Capaining printing house. He was sentenced to one month in prison after publishing the correspondence of Nicolae Vogoride. Ispirescu became director of the National and Romanul printing houses. He founded, together with Goebl Carol, the printing house Lucratorilor Asociati, and then he became the owner of the Academiei Romane printing house. He is buried at Bellu cemetery, in Bucharest. Ispirescu is especially known for his collections of Romanian folk stories. (1862, "The Romanian Peasant"), (1874, "Romanian Legends and Tales"), (1876, "Works and Life of Mihai Viteazu"), (1879, "Popular Anecdotes and Stories"), (1879, "Stories of a talkative old man"),(1880, "Examples and riddles"), (1883, "Tales, Anecdotes, and Jests"),(1885, "Children's Toys and Games"), (1886, "Moral Stories. About the Christmas Tree").

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