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Aesop's Fables
(Harper & Brothers, 1927)
I had found what I thought to be a first edition of this book earlier from Greg Williams. This copy is, like that, a pictorial black cloth octavo with a colored frontispiece and three other full-page colored illustrations. ...
Aesop's Fables
(Harper & Brothers, 1927)
This book is very similar to two others in the collection. All show a publication date of 1927. Like the Ten Editions book, this edition states First Edition with Louis Rhead's Pictures. Unlike either of those books, ...
Aesop's Fables
(Robert B. Collins, 1848)
Here is yet a third version of what may be the first American edition of the Tenniel and James book. Earlier I had found versions with black and red embossed covers. This version has a plainer brown cloth cover. Only ...
Ezop Masallari
(Dilek Matbaası, 1990)
Here is an 80-page children's paperback in very poor condition. Just enough remains of the title-page to know that it was published in Istanbul in 1990. There are no internal illustrations. If there was a T of C, it ...
Fables d'Ésope, Ornées de Cent Huit Figures d'apres Barlow, Tomes Premier et Second
(Chez Gueffier jeuneChez Guefflier jeune, 1801)
This is a landscape-formatted presentation of 107 fables, with two title-pages but just one frontispiece. The frontispiece makes a good comparison point with the frontispiece for Barlow's original 1666 version. The lion ...
Die Diebe und der Hahn: Fabeln des Äsop und Äsopische Fabeln des Phädrus
(Verlag Philipp Reclam Jun., 1975)
This is the third version I have of this book. The other two seem to have been the original East German done by Buchverlag der Morgen in Berlin in 1966 and a 1975 follow-up by VMA Verlag in Wiesbaden. The present copy ...
The three wishes
(1990)
This story has migrated into this fable-collection from elsewhere; note the tree fairy and the three magic wishes. A tree tells the woodcutter that it is a woodland fairy and will offer three wishes if uncut. The three ...
The Jay and the Nightingale
(1990)
This fable is new to me. It is told, at least generally, in past tenses. The jays' screaming was very anonymous (sic) because their voice was so ugly. But they thought their song was beautiful. They went to the eagle ...
The Old Man and a Silly Donkey
(1990)
This donkey has an enlarged and disproportioned head. He looks like one of Bennett's humans with an animal head. The title does not mention the lap-dog that plays a major part in this fable. The picture attempting to ...
The Merchant and His Friend
(1990)
This is the Panchatantra story of The Iron-Eating Rat, narrated in the past. It contains another prize-winning clause: he thought it should be wised to put someone taking a look iron stored in his home. In this version, ...