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Die Fabeln des Äsopus/Fables d'Esope/Favole di Esopo/Fabulae Aesopi II
((Joseph Frister), 1807)
"Here is a real prize! Two volumes each contain 45 Aesopic fables presented in the same format: a full-page (about 5" x 7½") illustration on more substantive paper and then a page each for German, French, Italian, and ...
Die Fabeln des Äsopus/Fables d'Esope/Favole di Esopo/Fabulae Aesopi I
((Joseph Frister), 1806)
"Here is a real prize! Two volumes each contain 45 Aesopic fables presented in the same format: a full-page (about 5" x 7½") illustration on more substantive paper and then a page each for German, French, Italian, and ...
The Fables of Aesop: Selected, told anew and their history traced
(F.M. Lupton Publishing Company, 1894)
"This small edition (4½" x 6") edition shares several curious features with the other six like it in format but perhaps a half inch taller: Caldwell 1894/1900? (red roses against a gold background on cover); Caldwell ...
Aesop's Fables for Little Readers
(T. Fisher Unwin, 1880)
"Here is a book internally identical with another in the collection. Where that book has a blue cloth cover, this book has a red cloth cover. As I wrote then, there seems to be no indication in this book of when this ...
Aesopi Fabulae Latine Redditae
(E.P. Williams/Simpkin, Marshall, et Soc., 1865)
This is a straightforward, tight, good looking book of eighty pages, 4 x 7, presenting 144 Latin fables. It is inscribed by W. Thackwray Shaw in 1866. There is also a notation Don Shaw 12.02 on the obverse of the title-page. ...
Fabulas de Esopo en Idioma Mexicano
(Oficina Tip. de la Secretaría de Fomento, 1895)
A keepsake for those attending the Eleventh Congress of Americanists in Mexico in 1895. Forty-seven fables in a language where a few Spanish words are distinguishable. A surprise find sitting among small books and books ...
The Favourite Book of Fables
(Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1890)
A wonderful little book of 117 fables, most notable for two features. First is its beautiful pictorial spine and covers, featuring good colored illustrations of five fables. Second is its interior mix of illustrators and ...
Bennett's Fables from Aesop and Others.
(Viking Press, 1857)
Lively and delightful illustrations, here reproduced vividly. If there is a problem with Bennett's wonderful pictures, it is that the social commentary is so pointed that we lose or miss something as we view them in a ...
Aesops Fables (Inside: Old Fables in a New Dress)
(McLoughlin, 1890)
Here is an extra copy of this booklet. The same size as my 1880 Aunt Louisa Series World-Wide Fables. I am delighted now to have a good copy. There are six brilliant full-page illustrations (and some curious retellings): ...
Some of Aesop's Fables with Modern Instances
(MacMillan and Co., 1883)
Here is a first extra copy of two. This copy is in good condition. The engravings of Caldecott's drawings are here of course in black-and-white, and they are excellent! I just showed a number of these in class yesterday! ...