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Faules de Isop, Filosof Moral y de Altres Famosos Autors
(Estampa de Torras, 1885)
""Corregidas de nou." The closing T of C lists eight books. The sixth is attributed to Remicius. The full-page representation of Aesop is surprising: he is a handsome hunchback. The pose is that of Steinhöwel's Aesop ...
Fables in Verse
(Brown, Bazin, & Co, 1855)
"Twenty-six years ago I bought a first copy of this book at Renaissance in Milwaukee. Here is a second copy in poorer condition. It has the same printer's error listed below. I keep it in the collection because it is a ...
Truths and Fables (Cover: Truths, Fables, and Pictuers [sic])
(Wm. J. Reynolds and Co., 1848)
"Here is a curious melange that starts with a misspelling on the front cover! Next, after one endpaper, follows a title-page "Truths and Fables" with the words framed by eight medallions of typical family scenes. At the ...
Little Folks Delight
(McLoughlin Bros, 1890)
Here is a simple 6½ x 8½ children's book in pictorial boards with a girl washing doll's clothes on the front cover and children rolling a huge ball of snow on the back. Inside is a typical collection of material for ...
Jolly Comrades
(M.A. Donohue & Company, 1890)
There are three fables here in an unpaginated collection of various children's materials. After a colored frontispiece of three children, one riding a dog, there are black-and-white illustrations. The telling by Ida Fay ...
Select Fables in Prose and Verse
(Samuel Wood, 1811)
Someone has written First edition on the first page of this small (3½ x 5¼) pamphlet. It contains thirteen fables in its fifty pages. In the title-page's illustration, Aesop holds up a mirror that shines back on human ...
The Fables of Aesop and Others Translated into Human Nature (Hand-colored)
(W. Kent & Co., 1857)
Here is an extra copy with red binding in slightly less good condition. One page is loose. I had given up on the existence of this colored version when I found a Bibliocity advertisement for it from Sotheran and followed ...
La Fontaine et Les Fabulistes, Vol. II
(Calmann Lévy, Éditeur, 1888)
This second volume came out some six years after the first. Since we are dealing here with a nouvelle édition of an existing work, I wonder what curious history lies behind the delay. This second volume, by contrast with ...
Reynard the Fox: A Burlesque Poem From the German Original of the Fifteenth Century
(Boston: Lee and Shepard/NY: Lee, Shepard, & Dillingham, 1872)
The introduction to the Heritage Press edition The Story of Reynard the Fox (1954) speaks of E.W. Holloway's Reynard the Fox, a Poem in twelve Cantos as having been published in London in 1852. The mention of twelve cantos ...
Fables de Gay, Traduites en Vers Français
(Chez Ancelle, Libraire, 1811)
Here is a wonderful little find! Bodemann lists this edition as #11.12. All fifty of Gay's first edition of fables are here, concluding with Le Lièvre qui a beaucoup d'amis. Seven of the fables have strong landscape ...