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Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists. In Three Books
(John Baskervilleprinted by John Baskervlle [sic] for R. and J. Dodsley,, 1764)
This book is a delightful anomaly. It stands directly between my first edition Dodsley from 1761 and my second edition Dodsley from 1764, which lacks the medallion illustrations. This copy is marked 1764 on the title-page ...
Uncle Charlie's Favourite Fables
(Griffith Farran Browne & Co. Limited, 1899)
My list of books titled by Uncle is growing: Uncle Frank, Uncle Didrick, Uncle Ben Jay, and of course Uncle Remus. Now here is Uncle Charlie. This is some of the clearest work I have by Weir: his main contribution to the ...
How the Rabbit Fooled the Whale and the Elephant; The Man Who Kept House; Why the Bear Has a Short Tail (Cover: How the Rabbit Fooled the Whale and the Elephant and Other Stories)
(Wonder Books, 1946)
Here is a new and curious experience. This book is the predecessor of another that I have already catalogued. That book's title begins Why the Bear Has a Short Tail and it is listed in 1946. Now I have found this version ...
Why the Bear Has a Short Tail; The Man Who Kept House; How the Rabbit Fooled the Whale and the Elephant.
(Wonder Booksdistributed by Random House, 1946)
The first story is the story so often told of the wolf fishing. The third story has the clever rabbit pitting the whale and elephant against each other without their knowing it. Ludwig Bemelmans originally wrote this ...
Fables Original and Selected
(D. Appleton & CO, 1863)
This book reproduces, with a few differences, the edition I have listed under 1842? from Willoughby and Company in London. The differences include the spine-and-cover, which has shifted from gold embossed on green with a ...
Gems from Fable-Land: A Collection of Fables Illustrated by Facts
(Charles Scribner, 1853)
The purpose of this singular book is to present one or more anecdotes of a fitting character, as real-life witnesses to the truth of the moral contained in the text (vi). To fulfill this purpose, seventy-five standard ...
Endangered Species and Other Fables with a Twist.
(Stemmer House Publishers, 1979)
This book easily vaults into the first rank, with Calder and Levine, for interest and wit. The tales are twisted (sometimes a la Bierce): the grasshopper has joined a rock group, and the ant gets angry. Among the best: ...
The Picture Preacher
(Henry Howe, 1880)
One of the strangest and most fascinating books I have, representative of nineteenth-century use of the fable. The object in these pages is to convey moral and religious instruction to the mind in a forcible manner, in ...
[Thai] Aesop's Fables, Vol. 1
(Polytechnic Education Ltd.Samnakphim Phī. Ēt., 1979)
A strange little booklet. The first nine stories are vintage Aesop, finishing with a boxed moral in English and illustrated by (xeroxed?) polychrome and monochrome work of Robert Ayton in his small Ladybird editions of ...
Select Fables with cuts, designed and engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, and others, previous to the year 1784: together with a Memoir; and a descriptive Catalogue of the works of Messrs. Bewick
(Baldwin Cradock, and Joy,Printed by S. Hodgson for Emerson Charnley et al, 1820)
These two books seem interiorly identical. Of my four 1820 Bewick Select Fables, these come closest to matching Bodemann 240.1. By contrast with the other two copies, these begin their last page one line earlier, with ...