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Fables Digital Collection

Aesop's fables have been used for centuries to teach lessons about wisdom, patience, diligence, and many other virtues. This digital collection reproduces several historical editions of these well-known tales.

Items in the Fables collection:
Sample image of Aesop's Fables, with his life: in English, French and Latin
Aesop's Fables, with his life: in English, French and Latin
London: Printed by H. Hills jun. for Francis Barlow, and are to be sold by Chr. , 1687
Aesop.
XX folio PA3857 .Z9 1687
Sample image of Aesop's fables. illustrated by Ernest Griset ; with text based chiefly upon Croxall, La Fontaine, and L'Estrange.
Aesop's fables. illustrated by Ernest Griset ; with text based chiefly upon Croxall, La Fontaine, and L'Estrange.
London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, [187-?]
Griset, Ernest
PA3855.E5 C7 1870z
Sample image of Bewick's Select fables of Aesop and others. In three parts. I. Fables extracted from Dodsley's. II. Fables with reflections in prose and verse. III. Fables in verse. To which are prefixed The life of Aesop, and An essay upon fable by Oliver Goldsmith
Bewick's Select fables of Aesop and others. In three parts. I. Fables extracted from Dodsley's. II. Fables with reflections in prose and verse. III. Fables in verse. To which are prefixed The life of Aesop, and An essay upon fable by Oliver Goldsmith
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., [1871]
Bewick, Thomas
PA3855 .B4 1871
Sample image of Fables for the frivolous (with apologies to La Fontaine) With illustrations by Peter Newell
Fables for the frivolous (with apologies to La Fontaine) With illustrations by Peter Newell
New York: Harper, 1900
Carryl, Guy Wetmore
PS1260.C7 F3 1900