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Hundert Fabeln mit hundert Bildern von Grandville
(Verlag von Carl J. Klemann, 1880)
"This book is surprising in many ways. First, it is not what one usually finds in a book titled "Fifty" or "One Hundred" fables. Those are commonly Speckter and Hey's collection of pedagogical verse. The next surprise ...
Fabulous Beasts: Renaissance Animal Lore: An Exhibition
(The Folger Shakespeare LibraryThe Library, 1993)
This is an exhibition catalogue from an exhibit done by and at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., June 24 to October 16, 1993. It is a large-format pamphlet of twenty-age pages, with slightly less stiff ...
Texte zur Geschichte der Altdeutschen Tierfabel
(A. Francke AG. Verlag, 1952)
This is 66-page booklet which happens to contain the same number of old German fables. The texts start with the ninth century C.E. and finish in the sixteenth century. The texts are well presented. Each is identified ...
Write Your Own Fable
(Compass Point Books, 2009)
Here is an extra copy of this book. This 64-page glossy book is one of eighteen offered by Compass Point Books for children in the fifth through seventh grades. I am impressed with its up-to-dateness, its insight into ...
Fable Stories
(China Intercontinental Press, 2011)
Lively cartoon work to present a strong array of some thirty-nine Chinese fables. The English sometimes suffers, as on 13 when again appears twice in the same clause. The following story, Sincerity Can Affect Even Metal ...
Die Gans und der Fuchs: Drei Dutzend Fabeln von La Fontaine, Goethe, Heine und Andern Schülern des Aesop
(Diogenes Verlag, 1957)
This is a fine, playful, well selected group of thirty-six fables on 75 pages, with a T of C at the end. Scarpi announces his criteria: he chooses rhymed animal fables that please him. Each fable gets a fresh page. There ...
El Libro de las Fábulas: Recopilación de las más famosas fábulas de Samaniego, La Fontaine, Iriarte, Hartzembusch, etc.
(Editorial Juventud, 1930)
Here is the 1958 third edition of a book I had already in its second edition from 1943. The monochrome illustrations here are not orange, as there, but rather black. There are thirty-three fables here from several ...
One Hundred Fables with Illustrations/Hundert Fabeln in Wort und Bild/Cent Fables Illustrées
(Ackermann & Co., 1839)
The cover reads One Hundred Fables in English, German & French. Illustrated. The sub-title on the title-page includes A New Edition in Three Languages in all three languages. If this is indeed a copy of the first edition ...
Write Your Own Fable
(Compass Point Books, 2009)
This 64-page glossy book is one of eighteen offered by Compass Point Books for children in the fifth through seventh grades. I am impressed with its up-to-dateness, its insight into fable, and its approach to writing. ...
Le Liévre [sic] et la Tortuë Mis en Fable par Différens Auteurs
(en l'École Municipale Estienne, 1914)
Before writing anything else, I must point out what seems to me a major mistake in this student book. The first four presentations of Lièvre get the accent wrong! Those presentations are on the cover, on the first and ...