This version of MM is a twelve-page pamphlet. Here the young milkmaid carries a large pitcher in her hands. She stops along the way to contemplate her future purchases while bunnies inspect what is inside the pitcher. ...

There are several surprises among the "Aesopic" fables in this little volume. Those from Aesop include BC; "The Fox and the Eagle"; WC; "The Angler and the Little Fish"; and "The Dog Invited to a Banquet." The second ...

This large-format (9' x 11½") paperback presents a lovely variety of illustrators of La Fontaine's fables in vivid color. There is no introduction or commentary. There is a last page of short biographical comments on the ...

Here is a children's storybook with thick, unnumbered pages and a wide variety of story-types. The one fable is identified as from Aesop and takes two pages late in the book: "The Cats and the Monkey." When the monkey ...

I had found another copy of this book twenty-four years ago. This copy is identical except for the different color -- and material? -- of the cover. This copy has a partially sun-bleached green cover. Its black cover ...

This 4¾" x 6½" pamphlet is a song version of FC with a one-page musical score, followed by alternating pairs of pages. The first, third and fifth pair present colored full-page illustrations of the chronology of the story. ...

""Corregidas de nou." The closing T of C lists eight books. The sixth is attributed to Remicius. The full-page representation of Aesop is surprising: he is a handsome hunchback. The pose is that of Steinhöwel's Aesop ...

"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 ...

"There is already a copy of this book in the collection, found in 1992. Now some 33 years later, I have found a copy in better condition with a dust jacket. It is hard to believe that the book was printed as early as ...

"The introduction is well titled "Cinco Fabulistas." I think I could understand immediately choosing the latter three. They are prominent Spanish language fabulists. Why take only Aesop and Phaedrus from the classic ...