This little (5 x 7½) book of 91 pages will not have changed the world of fables much, I presume. I have found two reviews. The first comes from The Educational Times of February 1, 1896: Equally charming on other lines ...

There are four fables in this reader. MSA (10) is well told and features a good black-and-white illustration of the donkey swinging crosswise from a pole. TMCM (42) is told in a version very close to Jacobs' and offers ...

This little (5½x almost 4½) volume represents a curiosity, a conundrum, or perhaps just a simple mistake. It is clearly labeled on cover and title-page as The Book of Fables, but the contents (pages 5 through 64) seem to ...

Here is a small 3½ x 5¼ complete La Fontaine with a T of C at the back of 339 pages. It is hard to know what is meant by the promise Nouvelle édition, dans laquelle on aperçoit d'un coup d'oeil la moralité de la fable, ...

I came on a Friday to Clignancourt and found this dealer -- and almost no others -- open for business. The special feature of this pair of small (4 x 7) volumes is the hand-colored illustrations. There are many of them! ...

I came on a Friday to Clignancourt and found this dealer -- and almost no others -- open for business. The special feature of this pair of small (4 x 7) volumes is the hand-colored illustrations. There are many of them! ...

The title-page continues: Avec le Texte en Regard; Suivies de Diverses Poésies Latines. This pair of volumes is a genuine curiosity. Louis-François Jauffret was editor of a volume of Florian's fables in 1801 and in 1815 ...

The title-page continues: Avec le Texte en Regard; Suivies de Diverses Poésies Latines. The pair of volumes, of which this is Volume II, are a genuine curiosity. Louis-François Jauffret was editor of a volume of Florian's ...

What a curious title! And what a time to look for political-moral wisdom! Here are 153 fables on 182 pages. Each new fable begins a new page in this small -- about 4 x 5 -- book. Its only illustration is the frontispiece ...

This book represents one of the nicer finds in my visit to Scandinavia. It is the kind of book I expected to find more of--and in fact have found more of on the web after the visit. It offers 203 fables on 155 pages, ...