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Fabulae Aesopi Selectae, or Select Fables of Aesop With an English Translation, more Literal than any yet extant, Designed for the Readier Instruction of Beginners in the Latin Tongue
(Printed by Samuel Hall, 1787)
These books reproduce in a new typesetting my 1784 copy from Strahan in London. They follow the same pagination down to the last page, where they squeeze the last few lines onto 154 and so are one page shorter than the ...
Fabulae Aesopi Selectae, or Select Fables of Aesop With an English Translation as Literal as Possible
(Printed by Burnside and Smith, 1804)
See my three editions (1784, 1787, 1802) of Clarke's book, on which this book is based. Let me quote the title-page here: A New Edition wherein the errors in the Latin text of the best and latest European copies of Mr. ...
Aesop's Fables, Vol. II
(Educational Publishing Company, 1894)
The mate to the Volume I (1892). How nice that I have found its companion! Though the covers are somewhat battered, the book inside is in very good condition. Thirty fables done as in Volume I, with black-board words ...
Aesop's Fables, Vol. I
(Educational Publishing Company, 1892)
Standard except for the illustration and event finishing the FG on 10: the grapes smile and laugh! The Bull and the Gnat becomes The Horse and the Fly. Helpful introduction: both boys and girls like Aesop; ...
Aesop's Fables Part I.
(Educational Publishing Company, 1894)
This is a reproduction of the first nine fables of Aesop's Fables (1892) by the same author and publisher. Notice that Aesop represents the first material for the first grade in the five cent classics advertised inside ...
Aesopi Fabulae (Eton School)
(Cummings and HilliardCummings et Hilliard, 1812)
AI on v. 164 fables in Greek, with Latin notes. No illustrations. Compare how two books have weathered 175 years!
Aesop's Fables, Volume I
(Trillium Press, 1985)
This fine four-volume series comprises good activities for school children based on fables (eleven per volume) well chosen for their human lessons. Almost every story has a good question labelled Something to think ...
Aesop's Fables, Volume IV
(Trillium Press, 1985)
This volume includes Noah at its end and the funny and unusual Momus fable. Asked to look at the original creations (man, house, and ox), Momus found fault with everything by saying Too bad it doesn't have... He was ...
Aesop's Fables, Volume II
(Trillium Press, 1985)
The best pictures here are for DLS and FK. The best moral is to The Fox and the Lion : Knowledge overcomes fear. The best ending line has the goat asking the wolf Are you worried about my dinner or yours?
Aesop's Fables, Volume III
(Trillium Press, 1985)
This volume moves on to poems, possessives, and competition. The best illustrations are for BC, The Tree and the Reed, and AL.