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Our Wonder World, Volume V: Every Child's Story Book.
(Geo. L. Shuman, 1914)
An excellent example of what culture meant for young people in 1914. Seventeen fables are retold (116-25) in Jacobs' version with illustrations from Heighway, Boutet de Monvel, and Rackham (his silhouettes for MSA are ...
The Book of Fables
(Sheldon Blakeman & Co.,, 1850)
This little (5½x almost 4½) volume represents a curiosity, a conundrum, or perhaps just a simple mistake. It is clearly labeled on cover and title-page as The Book of Fables, but the contents (pages 5 through 64) seem to ...
La Fontaine: Fables
(Librairie Aristide Quillet, 1930)
This is a rather standard mid-sized (5 x 7) edition of La Fontaine's fables, but it adds several curious features. There are several illustrations, not of fables, but of La Fontaine and his home in Château-Thierry. The ...
Knickers and Bobs: An Unusual Collection of Fables, Modern Stories and Old Time Tales for Young People
(McLoughlin Bros., 1924)
This is one of the larger books in the collection, 8½ x 10½ x 1½. Of the forty-one stories here, only two are, despite the title, fables. The Tailor and the Bear on 221 has a clever tailor using fable-like means to ...
Aesop's Fables, Book 1
([s.n.], 1890)
Here is a happy occurrence. I could find almost no bibliographical information in this 8 x 11 pamphlet--except the name of one visual artist, J. Burton. I could also see from the information I had that I would face a ...
Lafonten Hikayeler
(Iyigün Yayinlari/Iyigün Yayinevi, 1959)
The seller describes the book as rare. Its cover features six black-and-white illustrations from standard fables starting with MM and finishing with FS. The book is richly illustrated with full-page and partial-page ...
Lafonten Hikayeler: Tavsan ile Kaplumbaga
(Iyigün Yayinlari/Iyigün Yayinevi, 1964)
Though the tortoise and hare are on the cover, there are fourteen fables in this 32-page pamphlet from Istanbul. A T of C at the beginning lists the fables. Even I can recognize #13: Androkles! The illustrations -- ...
Fifty Forensic Fables
(Butterworth, 1949)
This book does for the legal profession in England what George Ade's fables do more broadly. These are enjoyable tales with pleasing caricatures. All the actors are humans. A funny appendix follows The Story of an Ancient ...
The Bookshelf for Boys and Girls: II
(Editorial Board of the University Society, 1927)
This book follows upon Volume I of the same year, but seems in cover and format to belong to an earlier generation of the book. Its fable section takes over the section in Volume III of The Home University Bookshelf (1927, ...
Le Fabuliste des Enfans et des Adolescens ou Fables Nouvelles
(Chez Perisse Frères, Libraires/A la Librairie Ecclésiastique, 1833)
Pour servir a l'instruction et a l'amusement de la jeunesse the title-page continues. Here are seven books worth of fables with eight full-page illustrations inserted. The frontispiece, for example, has Fable showing ...