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A Beauty of Thebes and Other Verses
(Printed for the Author, 1892)
Gregory's verses reflect Aesop at several points. The Clay God is Aesop's fable. The moral may not be the one Aesop had in mind: /The world is like the heathen's god./Petition it in humble strain,/And you may supplicate ...
The Book of Fables: Selections from Aesop, and other Authors Explained and Adapted to Popular Use
(Robert B. Collins, 1856)
This book reproduces almost exactly Fables from Aesop and Other Writers of Standard Celebrity Explained and Adapted to Popular Use (1851) by Baldwin, published in Philadelphia by Hogan & Thompson. All that seems lacking ...
Fables and Moral Maxims in Verse and Prose
(John W. Parker, 1835)
There are 272 pages here with plenty of small print on them. The moral intent of the book is clear from the first paragraph, which closes with the comment that some school editions of Aesop's and Gay's fables abound in ...
Little Fables for Little Folks
(John Van Voorst, 1835)
This is one of those little books with a long sub-title: Selected for their moral tendency and re-written in familiar words, not one of which exceeds two syllables; designed as reading lessons to amuse and instruct. There ...
Neues Fabelbuch: Goldnes ABC der Guten Sitten in ausgewählten Fabeln, Sprüchen und Sprichwörtern für die Kinderstube
(Verlag und Druck von Otto Spamer, 1884)
I am surprised not to find this book in Bodemann. The first edition of this book was done by Spamer in 1868. His Vorwort speaks of the addition especially of Krylov to this third edition. Bodemann #350.1 presents the ...
Fables Illustrated by Stories from Real Life: Self-Reliance
(T. Nelson and Sons, 1874)
This booklet of 31 pages is presumably exactly equivalent to one section of the larger work, Fables Illustrated by Stories from Real Life: First Series, published by Nelson in 1875. Only the page numbers are changed. ...
A Book of Fables: Amusement for Good Little Children
(Brown Taggard, & Chase,, 1859)
This is a pamphlet of 16 pages. The fables here include several that are new to me. In The Fox and the Cock, the fox tells the cock that he has heard that he is clever and wants to ask him a riddle. A dwarf meets a giant ...
Fables Choisies à l'Usage des Enfants et des Personnes qui Commencent à Apprendre la Langue Françoise
(Alex Smellie; Guillaume Creech; Longman Soc.; J. MurrayGuillaume Creech 1807., 1807)
I am cataloguing this book some seven and a half years after finding it. It is good to catch up! I think that I had originally set the book aside because I expected Chambaud's fables to be new and challenging, especially ...
Fables from Aesop and Other Writers of Standard Celebrity Explained and Adapted to Popular Use
(Hogan & Thompson, 1851)
This book is full of surprises. I thought it must be a variant form of Baldwin's 1840/1920? Fables Ancient and Modern Adapted for the Use of Children. It shares the same preface verbatim. It has sixty-nine fables, whereas ...