This large-format paperback book offers twenty-two two-page spreads offering texts and black-and-white illustrations to be colored by a young reader. The illustrations are highly simple. TMCM is told at too great length! ...

This small hardbound book is a curious melange. The introduction by Chesterton, taken without attribution from the 1912 edition featuring the art of Arthur Rackham, drops Chesterton's first paragraph. The translations ...

Here is another print-on-demand book in the form of a sturdy mid-sized paperback of 188 pages. This seems a good rendition of Townsend's texts, preceded by an interminable T of C and followed by a life of Aesop, a preface ...

Here is a paperback book that helps me to carry on my campaign against "publish upon demand" books. This book is, in some form, a reprint of Mara Pratt's 1892 first volume. The botched job by the reprinter makes it hard ...

Aesop and his stories keep generating lively things. In this case, the fables have inspired a happy poet to retell forty fables and then transform his story into poetry. The author concludes a little essay on Aesop this ...

This is the simplest of paperback presentations of Aesop. The spare colophon page is put at the Western front of the book together with a title-page. The translations begin of course from the Western "back" of the book. ...

This is the simplest of paperback presentations of Aesop. After a spare colophon page and a title-page, the translations begin. There are neither T of C nor page numbers. There are no illustrations beyond the impressive ...

Here is a published-upon-demand book worth publishing! The rhyming Scots verse is fun! I enjoyed reading the first five or six out loud, murdering no doubt the Scots pronunciation. Nice finds along the way included, in ...

This is the simplest of paperback presentations of Aesop. After a spare colophon page and a title-page, the translations begin. There are neither T of C nor page numbers. There are no illustrations beyond the impressive ...

Here is Fortuna Libri's Czech republication of Brimax's 1991 book, "Aesop's Fables." The two books make for a fascinating study in the family tree of books. I have seldom seen a more faithful use of the original. What ...