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Fables Original and Selected
(Willoughby & Co., 1842)
This somewhat-the-worse-for-wear book represents a real find on Jerry's part. It uses exactly the same plates as my fancy hand-colored 1842 edition. So it has the same 497 fables from some thirty-two fabulists, named ...
Picture Fables
(George Routledge and SonsRoutledge Warne, and Routledge,, 1858)
Several fables touch on Aesopic material (e.g., The Bat and the Bird on 36 and The Thief and the Dog on 86). There is a lovely frontispiece of life with the animals. The best feature might be the drawings of ...
Aesop's Fables
(McLoughlin Brothers, 1898)
A very nice run of Griset and Croxall. The plates are identical with those in my Aesop's Fables (1893?) by Cassell. This book, I would guess, is the inexpensive reprint of that. Only the paper (cheaper here), the title ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(Furne et Compagnie, 1855)
Lovely engravings, eight by Johannot and four by Moreau le Jeune, besides an unclaimed frontispiece portrait of LaFontaine. Since there is no list of illustrations, let me mention all twelve, with + for the best. ...
Fables composées pour l'éducation du Duc de Bourgogne par Fénelon
(Librairie Classique E. BelinLibrairie Classique d'Eugène Belin, 1840)
Now how is that for a title?! My first edition of Fénelon's (1651-1715) fables, mentioned by Hobbs on 16. Thirty-nine prose fables in a small book with simple boards--reprinting the title page and advertising some ...
McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader
(American Book Company, 1879)
Good condition. Five fables, several with rhyming morals and illustrations of historic interest. In BW (42), John loses his pet lamb along with other sheep. SW (59) is well told. The others are The Clock and the Sundial ...
Recueil de Fables et Contes Choisis, À l'Usage de la Jeunesse.
(Myles MacPhail, 1850)
Of the thirty-one selections in this assortment, only two are Aesopic fables: The Monkey and the Dolphin (IV) and The Acorn and the Pumpkin (XIII). The other stories lean heavily toward historical anecdote. I enjoy the ...
The Book of Fables: Containing Aesop's Fables. Complete, with text based upon Croxall, La Fontaine and L'Estrange. With Copious Additions from other Modern Authors
(John B. Alden, 1883)
Again, I thought I was picking up a good second copy of a book where my first copy may have been in only fair condition. And this book is very close to one that I have listed under the same title and publisher in 1885. ...
Aisopou Mythoi Eklektoi/Fables Choisies d'Ésope; texte Grec, suivi des racines
(Imprimerie d'Auguste Delalain, 1834)
Nouvelle Edition avec Notes par A.M. The fable book takes up 66 pages. There are forty fables. Almost every commentary begins by identifying a parallel or source in Phaedrus, La Fontaine, Faerno, or Desbillons. The ...
Aunty Wonderful's Stories Translated from the German for All Good Children Who Have Learned to Think
(Phillips Sampson, and Company,, 1856)
I had ten minutes while a friend was doing business in the post office, so I stopped in. I was lucky enough to find this curious little treasure. Two children, Herman and Augusta, go off to visit Aunty Wonderful and to ...