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A Type Specimen of Lutetia: Several Fables of Aesop.
(Harold Berliner, Printer, 1970)
Six fables from Handford's Penguin translation give Berliner a chance to show off specimens of his lovely type, specifically Lutetia 12D Roman and Italic, 14D Roman and Italic, and 16D Roman.. Good woodblock illustrations ...
A Type Specimen of Baskerville: Several Fables of Aesop.
(Harold Berliner, 1971)
Six fables from Handford's Penguin translation give Berliner a chance to show off specimens of his lovely type, specifically 12 point Roman, Bold, and Italic and 8 point, 10 point, and 12 point Roman with Italic. Wonderful, ...
Aesop's Fables
(Junior Deluxe Editions, 1968)
The same material one finds in the standard Doubleday editions (1968) with the exception of Singer's introduction and the AI at the back. The print is larger, the order of fables is rearranged, and there seem to be fewer of them.
Aesops Fabler
(E. Jespersens Forlag, 1910)
Here is a lovely book with Billinghurst's The Fox and the Mask on the pictorial board cover. Inside there are fifteen excellent Billinghurst illustrations for fifteen prose fables. Each fable gets four pages: two for the ...
Aesop's Fables, Volume I
(Trillium Press, 1985)
This fine four-volume series comprises good activities for school children based on fables (eleven per volume) well chosen for their human lessons. Almost every story has a good question labelled Something to think ...
Aesop's Fables, Volume IV
(Trillium Press, 1985)
This volume includes Noah at its end and the funny and unusual Momus fable. Asked to look at the original creations (man, house, and ox), Momus found fault with everything by saying Too bad it doesn't have... He was ...
Aesop's Fables, Volume II
(Trillium Press, 1985)
The best pictures here are for DLS and FK. The best moral is to The Fox and the Lion : Knowledge overcomes fear. The best ending line has the goat asking the wolf Are you worried about my dinner or yours?
Aesop's Fables, Volume III
(Trillium Press, 1985)
This volume moves on to poems, possessives, and competition. The best illustrations are for BC, The Tree and the Reed, and AL.
Aesop's Fables in Verse
(Elliot Stock, 1901)
This is a slim book containing fifty-one verse fables on 99 pages. I had never seen nor heard of the book before, and so was willing to spend some money on it. In her three-page preface, Eyears chooses verse because it ...
Aesop's Fables
(Exeter Books, 1924)
Surprisingly good runs of the reproductions of Rountree's work. This book is closest to the sixteen-illustration edition of 1924? As is typical of Exeter, there is no introductory or bibliographical material.