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The Fables of Aesop (small format)
(Illustrated Editions Co., 1857)
I wrote of a Parker-Bennett-Illustrated Editions book that I found in 1994 that I could not believe that I had found another variation on a very often-played theme. This present book stayed on the shelf of not yet catalogued ...
The Oak & the Nettle
(Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge/E. & J.B. Young & Co., 1857)
Here is the kind of surprise that fuels this collection. First, there is clearly a series of fable booklets of which I had known nothing. How many others are there? Second, this booklet presents a different pattern from ...
Peter Parley's Thousand and One Stories.
(James Miller, 1857)
Here is a curious book containing 1001 items, including, the introduction says (xvi), the fables of Florian and LaFontaine. The frontispiece shows an early train. There are nine fables here, each with a strong engraving. ...
The Fables of Aesop (small format)
(Illustrated Editions Co., 1857)
I cannot believe that I have found yet another different format of a Bennett edition! This one is almost identical with the 1857/1931 edition by World Publishing in Cleveland. It thus has a small format and thin pages. ...
The Fables of Aesop
(Deluxe Editions: Illustrated Editions Co., 1857)
Identical with the Illustrated Edition volume of the same year except for a different cover and paper that makes the book about 1/4 as thick. Excellent runs on Bennett's black-and-white drawings. I will keep the extra ...
Erstes Lesebuch fuer Deutsche Elementar-Schulen.
(H. Niedecken, 1857)
This simple first German reader contains eleven fables among its forty-three prose selections and two verse renditions as well. MSA has a new twist: the passerby says You are three fools. Isn't it enough if two of you ...
The Fables of Aesop
(Three Sirens Press, 1857)
This book is identical in all but cover with the boxed edition I have also listed under 1857/1933 published by Three Sirens. This copy has a brown-to-maroon cover and lists Palace Edition on the spine--but nowhere else. ...
The Fables of Aesop
(Three Sirens Press, 1857)
This book is very closely related to the boxed white-cover version by the same publisher in the same year, but it has a dark gray cover with a blue fox and blue grapes. It also has a blue background for the title on the ...
The Fables of Aesop and Others Translated into Human Nature
(W. Kent & Co., 1857)
I am surprised and delighted to have this book. I may have seen it once, at Southern Mississippi's library. One delightful wood engraved plate for each of the twenty-two fables here, plus two other engravings. One is ...
Fables Original and Selected
(G. Routledge & Co., 1857)
This lovely little book may not fit into a collection of Aesop. At first I was going to exclude it. But Aesop is on the cover and he is behind more than a few of the fables, notably The Dog and the Stork, which turns out ...