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American Aesop: Negro and Other Humor.
(The Jordan & More press, 1926)
Not even close as a book of Aesopic material! The introduction does not seem to mention either Aesop or fable. What is the connection with Aesop? Perhaps just witty (?) stories? As it is, what we have here is a collection ...
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 ...
Aesop's Fables
(The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf (The Heritage Press), 1941)
Almost identical with the Heritage Reprints edition. I presume now that this edition is actually a pre-war edition antedating that one. The chief distinguishing marks are a change from red here to brown there in the ...
Anthology of Children's Literature
(Houghton MifflinRiverside Press, 1959)
Thirteen pages of fables from eight sources in a huge book. Strangely, in an overdocumented book, the source of the Aesop's fables is not acknowledged. There are an introduction and a bibliography for the fable section. ...
The Mammoth Wonder Book for Children.
(Odhams Press, Ltd, 1935)
Mammoth indeed! There is so much stuff in this book! Among it there are six fables on 699-704. The Rountree illustrations are witty and well-preserved. The book has a variety of fetching illustration styles. T of C ...
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 ...