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Aesop's Fables with Upwards of One Hundred and Fifty Emblematical Devices
(John Locken, 1849)
This very little book (3¼ x 4½) reproduces almost exactly my 1839 and 1841 editions from Thomas, Cowperthwait & Company, also in Philadelphia. It thus has 228 pages. This book has even smaller margins than those, and so ...
Some of Aesop's Fables with Modern Instances.
(MacMillan and Co., 1883)
Compare this fine copy, though with a highly flexible blue cover, with the first edition four years earlier from MacMillan in London and with the first edition four years earlier from MacMillan in New York. The illustrations ...
Fables of Aesop and Others Translated into English with Instructive Applications and a Print Before Each Fable
(Published by Joseph M'Dowell, 1836)
First, there is this bad news: 195-201 are missing. This book uses apparently the same after Kirkall plates that were used in my Cowperthwait edition of 1850 and my 1840 edition of unknown origin. My test case for this ...
The Little Esop
(G.W. Cottrell, 1860)
Inscribed in 1863. Good condition. This little volume uses the title, title-page design, and other elements from previous The Little Esop works that I have listed under 1844, 1846, and 1848. But the book has been ...
Aesop's Fables with Upwards of One Hundred and Fifty Emblematical Devices
(Thomas Cowperthwait & Co.,, 1841)
See my identical copy of 1839 from the same publisher with the same title. The only change I see here is that we have nice leather with Aesop's Fables embossed on the cover. The top of the spine is damaged. See my ...
The Fables of Aesop
(Frederick Warne and Co., 1868)
At last I have found a copy--and now two--of an edition I found recommended early in my hunt for fable books. This book may be a good deal later than the date I am guessing for it. Compare with three other books, all by ...
The Fables of Aesop
(Frederick Warne and Co., 1869)
At last I have found a copy--and now two--of an edition I found recommended early in my hunt for fable books. This book may be a good deal later than the date I am guessing for it. Compare with three other books, all by ...
Fables Illustrated by Stories from Real Life. First Series.
(T. Nelson and Sons, 1875)
This book has the same thirty-three stories as the 1883 version. See my comments there. The T of C here does not number the stories as it does there. The same three stories here lack a modern parallel: The Monkey and ...
Aesop's Fables
(R. Worthington, 1884)
This book seems identical with the edition of the same name that I have listed under 1896 from Donohue, Henneberry, and Co. Let me repeat most of what I say there. This large-format book may be the best example in my ...
Fabulae Aesopicae quales ante Planudem ferebantur
(Sumptibus Jo. Aug. Gottl. Weigel, 1810)
I had thought that this large book was a second copy of another, also listed under 1810, which I had found at William Hale's in 1991. It turns out on closer examination to be indeed a much fuller book. This book brings ...