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Select Fables: New Translations from Aesop
(Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, 1828)
This twelve-page chapbook cost more than I would like to pay, but it seems to be the real thing. In fact it seems to come from the very end of the chapbook-era. It is larger than I have conceived of chapbooks, since it ...
Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources, With Fifty Illustrations
(NY: The American News Company/Springfield, OH: Farm and Fireside Company, 1881)
Here is a very lucky find. This 94-page booklet includes perhaps two hundred fables on 9-93 after the typical James Introduction to the Life and Fables of Aesop and before a page of advertisements that continue on the ...
Nouveau Recueil de Fables d'Ésope
(Ancienne Librairie Poussielgue, 1893)
Here are sixty-five Greek fables, with plenteous footnotes, followed by a lexicon. The pedagogical arrangement of the fables is this: they are grouped according to what they can teach. Thus the first four fables show ...
The Word-Picture Fable Book, or Old Aesop in a New Dress
(T. Nelson and Sons Paternoster Row,, 1872)
One first encounters here a lovely colored pasted-on illustration of FG on the cloth cover. Inside are twenty-two fables offered in rebus form. Beginning on 75 there is a key, a collection of standard tellings of the ...
Aesop's Fables (With 200 Illustrations): Books for the Bairns -I
(Review of Reviews Office, 1896)
Pink pictorial paper wraps. Each of the sixty fables listed in the beginning T of C has from two to five small black-and-white illustrations that are most similar to the old transfers we played with as children. As in ...
The Fables of Aesop with Instructive Applications Illustrated with One Hundred Engravings
(Milner and Sowerby, 1860)
This seems to be a reprint of the book I have listed under 1843. The publisher has changed from William Milner to Milner and Sowerby. The indication of the same as printer at the bottom of the last page no longer includes ...
Marcus Ward's Picture-Fables from Aesop in Four Books: The Jackdaw and Peacock and Other Fables
(Marcus Ward & Co., 1890)
This is one landscape-formatted booklet from a set of four. A further sub-title on the cover adds: From Aesop. Told anew in verse and figured in colors. There are six fables, recounted in verse by J. Hain Friswell. ...
Favole d'Esopo Volgarizzate per uno da Siena Cavate dal Codice Laurenziano Inedito e Riscontrate con Tutti I Codici Fiorentini e col Senese
(Felice Le Monnier, 1864)
This text has 63 numbered Italian fables with two inedited fables at the end. There are extensive footnotes. Each fable closes with a Latin couplet. A cursory check suggests that there are no surprises in the subjects ...
Aesop's Fables: A New Version Chiefly from Original Sources
(Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co./London: John Murray, 1869)
This book is nearly identical with that from John Murray that I have listed under 1867/74. See my comments there. This edition places the list of illustrations where its page numbers should locate it rather than before ...
Aesop's Fables Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices
(Printed at the Chiswick Press by C. Whittingham for J. Carpenter J. Booker, Sharpe and Hailes, and J. Carr,, 1813)
This is a curious find. At first it seems very similar to two smaller books, published in 1839 and 1841, with which it shares the words emblematical devices and a title-page illustration of a man seated in the countryside ...