"Here is the third printing I have of this book. I have placed the printings of the others in 1922 and 1925. Other than the date of printing that they bear, I believe that they are identical. The particular pride of ...

"This copy is almost identical with another book in the collection. The only difference I notice is on the verso of the title-page, where this copy substitutes "W.P. 1" for "W.P. 2" there. As I wrote there, this is a ...

"I have two books of the same title from the same publisher: a Cathedral Edition of 1964 and a standard edition of 1965. This standard edition of 1963 helps to confirm how different the Cathedral Edition is. In fact, the ...

See my extended comment on the book of which this is a revision, The Elson Readers: Book Two under 1927/28. This copy Catholicizes the book by adding Fr. O'Brien, a frontispiece of The Pope of the Little Children, Biblical ...

Twelve fables, each with at least some illustration. All illustrations include some red but no other color. The Mouse, the Cat and the Rooster is attributed to Dodsley (12). The Rats, the Fox and the Egg (83) is from ...

About as Catholic a book as you can find! It contains one fable by Bidpai (TT, 28) and one by Aesop ( The Wise Mice, 54). Its colored pictures are simple: five and three respectively. TT is told differently: the ...

A school reader in very good condition. Two fables: MM (39) has an excellent illustration. The Hunter and the Rabbit (41) is identified as by Aesop, but I think I have not seen it before. Its point is the same as ...

Previously, I had found the third reader, listed under the same date. This well used copy of the second reader contains The Cat and the Rat (14), LM (21), The Fox and the Rabbits (33), The Two Goats (142), and The Bear ...

A standard reader in poor condition. The reader opens with three Aesopic fables-- The Monkey and the Cats, LS, and BW--and one American Indian story labelled a fable. Later on (51) there is the fable of the larks' ...

Formerly the property of the Omaha School System, this reader is in poor shape, with lots of tears and marks. See 1899 for the third reader in this series. This volume contains four fables. FS (86), embellished with ...