1882 Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources

Description

Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Slipcase

Four volumes of Rev. Thomas James edition of the fables of Aesop, which were first published in this edition in 1848.

Each of these volumes is the edition of James, and features illustrations from John Tenniel and Wolf.

Illustrated with over one-hundred vignette illustrations from Tenniel in each volume. Lewis Carroll was so impressed by John Tenniel's animated designs for this edition of the fables that he chose the Tenniel to illustrate 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.

Present here are: the 1852 edition of this work; the 1863 edition, being the forty-eighth thousand; the 1868 edition, being the sixty-third thousand, and the 1882 edition, being the seventy-eighth thousand.

Aesop's Fables are a collection of brief moral tales attributed to a storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece around the 6th century BCE. These tales typically feature animals as characters who embody human traits and behaviours, teaching practical life lessons through their interactions.

Classic fables like "The Tortoise and the Hare," "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," and "The Ant and the Grasshopper" use simple narratives to convey enduring wisdom about virtues such as perseverance, honesty, and hard work. 

With a thirty-two page catalogue to the rear of the 1852 volume, dated January 1852, and another to the 1868 volume, dated April 1868.

Housed in a cloth clamshell case, these four volumes were collected by Eric Sweet, whose bookplate appears to the interior of the clamshell.