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Flower Fables

Alcott, Louisa May (Mershon Company, 1854)

I include this book in the collection only because of the title. These are nine tales that the flowers told to the elves. In the first, Violet goes from the Queen of the Fairies, who are the protectors of flowers, to win ...

Fabeln, Parabeln und Erzählungen für jeden Stand und jedes Alter nebst einer Abhandlung über das Wesen und den Vortrag der Fabel

Rehsener, Carl Gottlieb ([s.l.], 1859)

I have learned that Memel was formerly a city in East Prussia and is now Klaipida in Lithuania. This book begins with a subscriber list. Though the circumstances are surely different, I suspect that it was what we would ...

Fables in Verse

No Author (Brown, Bazin, & Co, 1855)

"Twenty-six years ago I bought a first copy of this book at Renaissance in Milwaukee. Here is a second copy in poorer condition. It has the same printer's error listed below. I keep it in the collection because it is a ...

A New Dress for an Old Friend, Intended for the Amusement of Children, Being a Fable of Aesop in Rhyme

Carmichael, Mary D. I. (Henry Vernon, 1857)

Here is a curious find. A large book (9¾" x 12"), it contains 24 stiff pages printed – except for the last – on only one side. That last page, printed on both sides, contains a list of subscribers. The opening page of ...

Book of Fables Illustrated by Facts from Real Life

Bourne, William Oland (T. Nelson and Sons, 1853)

Here is a curious book. It uses exactly the same texts for the same fables in another book by the same author, "Gems from Fable-Land: A Collection of Fables Illustrated by Facts," published in New York in the same year ...