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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 ...
The Ox and the Frog and Other Stories
(Sterling Press Private Limited, 2002)
This sixteen-page pamphlet contains eight fables with playful and colorful illustrations. One sees what can happen with poorly matched color at mid-page on 2-3. This bull is blue in front but white in back! This story, ...
Aesop's Fables and Other Stories
(M.A. Donohue, 1925)
Here is an extra copy of this book. I am going crazy because I recognize both the drawings (Weir?) and the page tops of the fables on the first forty pages of this book. Then it moves off to various other children's ...
La cigarra y la hormiga y otros cuentos.
(Editorial Ramon Sopena, 1983)
Three fables and two stories with big, good art. The title story is fine. The ant carries a basket of grains. The grasshopper (Jiminy Cricket?) plays the violin. He acts like a rude, crazy child. Lovely illustrations, ...
Favourite Fables for Tiny Trots
(Wells Gardner Darton & Co., 1899)
Here is a fine miniature book. The slightly damaged cloth cover features a large bird looking down at a frog; the back cover has two frogs struggling to carry a large box. Besides an illustrated frontispiece of TMCM and ...
Animal Frolics
(McLoughlin Brothers, 1890)
A surprising find. Mother and I went to a craft show on the fair grounds. I finished early and invaded the antique fair next door. I have looked through thousands of books shown by antique dealers. I rarely find ...
Fables
(Houghton Mifflin, 1989)
This large-format pamphlet includes nine fables from Aesop, two from La Fontaine, one from Lobel, and four from Ginsburg. All but the last four have full-page color illustrations. Ginsburg's four stories are apparently ...
Fábulas de Siempre: Las Tradicionales
(Selector: Editorial Libsa, 2002)
This is a sturdy 8½ x 10½ paperback offering thirty classic fables, all but one on a single page. The contributors include Aesop, Phaedrus, La Fontaine, Samaniego, and Hartzenbusch. The unacknowledged illustrations are ...
The Picture Treasury of World Fables 1
(Shandong Friendship Press, 1989)
Here is the first volume of an ambitious set of five. This comprehensive presentation is quite an undertaking! This Book One covers Aesop, Phaedrus, and Sadi. It offers some 84 fables on 368 pages. There is an English ...