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Fables from Aesop and Other Writers of Standard Celebrity Explained and Adapted to Popular Use
(Hogan & Thompson, 1851)
This book is full of surprises. I thought it must be a variant form of Baldwin's 1840/1920? Fables Ancient and Modern Adapted for the Use of Children. It shares the same preface verbatim. It has sixty-nine fables, whereas ...
Literary Fables, from the Spanish of Yriarte.
(Longman Brown, Green, and Longman,, 1851)
This edition of sixty-three fables has occasioned my most serious reading yet of Iriarte. The moral is stated in Spanish before the fable. The translator, like the author, chooses any form of meter that occurs to him for ...
Uncle Frank's Select Fables for Good Boys and Girls VI: The Tortoise and the Two Crows
(Wm. H. Murphy, 1851)
The cover reads Uncle Frank's Fables for Children: The Tortoise and the Two Crows. Sixth of six volumes (listed on the back cover), with pages numbered here from 171-204. Twenty-five fables. The organizing principle ...
Uncle Frank's Select Fables for Good Boys and Girls V: The Swallow & Other Birds
(Wm. H. Murphy printer and publisher, Franklin Bookstore, 384 Pearl Street,, 1851)
The cover reads Uncle Frank's Fables for Children: The Swallow & Other Birds. Fifth of six volumes (listed on the back cover), with pages numbered here from 137-170. Twenty-five fables. The organizing principle seems ...
Uncle Frank's Select Fables for Good Boys and Girls II: The Thief and the Dog.
(Wm. H. Murphy printer and publisher, Franklin Bookstore, 384 Pearl Street,, 1851)
Second of six volumes, with pages numbered consecutively (here 35-68). Twenty-five fables. The organizing principle seems to be the illustration on every right hand page. Small fables are filled in to complete the ...
Uncle Frank's Select Fables for Good Boys and Girls III: The Fir and the Bramble.
(Wm. H. Murphy, 1851)
Third of six volumes, with pages numbered consecutively (here 69-102). Twenty-five fables. Here we have The Dove and the Bee (99) instead of The Ant and the Pigeon. The organizing principle seems to be the ...
Uncle Frank's Select Fables for Good Boys and Girls I: The Undutiful Young Lion
(Wm. H. Murphy printer and publisher, Franklin Bookstore, 384 Pearl Street,, 1851)
The cover reads Uncle Frank's Fables for Children: The Undutiful Young Lion. First of six volumes (listed on the back cover), with pages numbered here surprisingly from 172-204. Twenty-three fables. The organizing ...
Uncle Frank's Select Fables for Good Boys and Girls IV: The Ant and the Caterpillar
(Wm. H. Murphy, 1851)
The cover reads Uncle Frank's Fables for Children: The Ant and the Caterpillar. Fourth of six volumes (listed on the back cover), with pages numbered here surprisingly from 103-36. Twenty-one fables. The organizing ...