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Familiar Fables in Easy Language, Suited to the Juvenile Mind.
(Dean and Son, 1855)
Inscribed again and (in the same family) in 1916. The preface claims to shorten and simplify its original's applications; the reference seems to be to Northcote's original series of fables. (See his emblem on 110.) The ...
The Fables of James Northcote, R.A.
(Dean and Son, 1854)
Internally and on its cover this book almost exactly matches another for which I guessed a date of 1855. The difference between the two books lies in the title-page. There it was Familiar Fables in Easy Language, Suited ...
Fabler af Aesop ved Christian Winther
(P.G. Philipsens Forlag, 1859)
This book represents one of the nicer finds in my visit to Scandinavia. It is the kind of book I expected to find more of--and in fact have found more of on the web after the visit. It offers 203 fables on 155 pages, ...
Phaedri Augusti liberti Fabulae Aesopiae quum veteres tum novae atque restitutae
(B.G. Teubneri, 1850)
Let me quote Pack Carnes, from whose Phaedrus bibliography I learned that this 1855 edition was a reprint of the 1850 original: A school edition outfitted with a six page introduction. No glossary, no notes. Prints the ...
Fables de J. La Fontaine
(F. Didot frèresParis: Librairie de Firmin Didot Fréres, Fils et Cie, 1859)
Perhaps the loveliest non-illustrated LaFontaine in this collection. The careful owners in this last, unexpected Albuquerque stop did not know that they had this book. Very good condition. Calf binding with marbled ...
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 ...
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. ...
Child's Book of Fables
(Leavitt & Allen, 1855)
I have another copy of this little eight-page pamphlet. I have listed it under 1860?; its illustrations are colored, and it adds a green cover. Here the illustrations are not colored, and the cover paper has the same ...
The Bath Fables on Manners, Morals, and Fate
(Fred Pitman, 1850)
One of the craziest books I have found. The whole small-format book (except for one introductory page) is done in the phonetic alphabet. Slow and difficult reading! Fifty fables, each with a stated target audience. The ...