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Faules de Isop, Filosof Moral y de Altres Famosos Autors
(Estampa de Torras, 1885)
""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 ...
Fables in Verse
(Brown, Bazin, & Co, 1855)
"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 ...
The Picture Treasury of World Fables 1
(Shandong Friendship Press, 1989)
Here is the first volume of an ambitious set of five. This comprehensive presentation is quite an undertaking! This Book One covers Aesop, Phaedrus, and Sadi. It offers some 84 fables on 368 pages. There is an English ...
The Picture Treasury of World Fables 2
(Shandong Friendship Press, 1989)
Here is the second volume of an ambitious set of five. This comprehensive presentation is quite an undertaking! This Book Two covers fables by Krylov and Schedrin and other fable writers from the Soviet Union, Romania, ...
Fable Comics
(First Second Books, 2015)
Here are twenty-eight fables rendered by contemporary cartoonists. They range in size from one page to six. The first offering, FG, by James Kochalka, includes a good deal of appropriate chatter from the fox and a jet-pack ...
Animal Frolics
(McLoughlin Brothers, 1890)
A surprising find. Mother and I went to a craft show on the fair grounds. I finished early and invaded the antique fair next door. I have looked through thousands of books shown by antique dealers. I rarely find ...
Fables
(Houghton Mifflin, 1989)
This large-format pamphlet includes nine fables from Aesop, two from La Fontaine, one from Lobel, and four from Ginsburg. All but the last four have full-page color illustrations. Ginsburg's four stories are apparently ...
Favourite Fables for Tiny Trots
(Wells Gardner Darton & Co., 1899)
Here is a fine miniature book. The slightly damaged cloth cover features a large bird looking down at a frog; the back cover has two frogs struggling to carry a large box. Besides an illustrated frontispiece of TMCM and ...
El Maravilloso Mundo de las Fábulas (Tomo 3)
(Editorial Alfredo Ortells, 1986)
This third volume, apparently in a series of three, adds a sentence at mid page indicating the authors of the fables here: Aesop, Phaedrus, La Fontaine, Samaniego, and Iriarte. The book continues the tradition of the first ...
El Maravilloso Mundo de las Fábulas (Tomo 1)
(Editorial Alfredo Ortells, 1986)
Here is a later printing of a book already in the collection under 1984. This printing changes the date of the Deposito Legale on the obverse of the title-page and adds a second ISBN there for the Obra completa. It also ...