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Recueil de Fables et Contes en Patois Saintongeais
(Libraire de Firmin Didot Frères et FilsLibrairie de Firmin Didot Frères et Fils, 1859)
The title goes on Avec la Traduction en Regard. This sturdy little book (3¾ x 5½) contains some fifteen bilingual fables. They seem to be done after La Fontaine. Shapiro's The Fabulists French offers a good introduction ...
The Pictorial Spelling Book
(Pratt Woodford & Co.,, 1850)
There is a section of eight fables on 115-121, six of them with good rectangular illustrations. There is a very good moral to the first, The Wolf in Disguise: There would be but little chance of detecting hypocrisy, were ...
Fables Designed for the Instruction and Entertainment of Youth. A new edition carefully corrrected
(Baudry's European Library, 1852)
This is an unusual little (3½ x 5½) paperbound edition of Dodsley's fables. First, it is unillustrated. Further, Dodsley published his fables in three books with a total number of 109 stories. See my comments on the ...
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 ...
A Greek Reader, Selected Chiefly from Jacobs' Greek Reader, Adapted to Bullions' Greek Grammar.
(Pratt, Oakley & Company, 1859)
The very first readings offered (91-96) are twenty-two of Aesop's fables, including a last one in verse. The notes for these texts are on 218-221. See the parallel edition for Latin, listed under 1854. The publisher has ...
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 ...
Bennett's Fables from Aesop and Others
(Viking Press, 1857)
Here is a third copy of this book. Lively and delightful illustrations, here reproduced vividly. If there is a problem with Bennett's wonderful pictures, it is that the social commentary is so pointed that we lose or ...
Fables of Aesop and Others Translated into English with Instructive Applications and One Hundred and Ninety-Eight Illustrations
(Derby & Jackson, 1859)
Here is one of many cheap reprintings with new illustrations of the Croxall edition of 1722. Perhaps the first thing to notice about this edition is that the dedication to Lord Halifax has been dropped. The preface's ...
Nouveau Recueil de Fables et Historiettes Mis en Vers
(Imprimerie Bénard et CompagnieLibrairie classique, 1852)
The title continues Sujets puisés en partie dans des Livres arabes, persans, etc. a la Portée des Enfants. Opening the cover presents the first curiosity. The cover changes the title-page's date of publication from 1852 ...
Aesop in Rhyme, or Old Friends in a New Dress
(Philadelphia: C.G. Henderson & Co./NY: D. Appleton & Co., 1854)
This little book rewards some study. The first fables, through 78, repeat verbatim the texts of Jefferys Taylor in his 1821 Aesop in Rhyme, with Some Originals. From what I can tell, later stories in this book that repeat ...