I already had a copy of this book with a frontispiece whose background is black when I found this copy whose background is white! The book is otherwise identical. Might the printer have had a bad day and forgotten to add ...

Here is an extra of a book I found at the Harvard Book Store. It is a first-rate piece of scholarship that puts Henryson within our reach. Very readable versions of the 13 fables. Henryson's morals are strongly allegorical ...

This extra copy without a cover lacks also the frontispiece and the ten pages after 208. It will be a great way for students to get a good look at Tenniel and even at what a book looks like when it has endured 160 years ...

Here is the first of three extra copies of this book. Attractive. The pictures are cute, but I am not sure which I could use. The narratives are okay. The black-background frontispiece is very attractive. There are ...

Here is a second copy of the first printing of this lovely book. I wrote the following about the primary copy. This is a good book! Each of the eight fables gives an autobiographical Sitz im Leben for Aesop's telling ...

Here is an extra copy without dust-jacket, but still a first printing of the first edition. Hague did Wind in the Willows, and he follows the same style here. It is engaging, but unfortunately most of the illustrations ...

This is a fine recent Aesop book! Some eighteen artists contribute two to four illustrations for each of the fables here. The styles are various and lively. The good illustrations start with what I believe is a whimsical ...

This is a lovely book I happened to find when I was trying to spend down the little money left on my Eurocheck debit card in the late days of my stay in Mannheim. The book is unusual in opening not from right to left but ...

This paperback book has an unusual shape: about 4¼ wide by 8½ high. The cover features a dramatic picture of BW. Inside are forty fables, as the beginning T of C shows. Up to 74, the fables are two-pages in length. ...

Here is a well-stocked collection of fables printed on cheap paper and displaying a variety of illustrations and illustration styles. The backbone is Rackham, whom one finds on the cover and e.g., on 29, 31, 33, and 51. ...