1895 Aesop's Fables

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

In the publisher's original cloth binding.

This edition is part of the Banbury Cross Series, a collection of 12 volumes edited by Grace Rhys, published in the 1890s. First edition, thus.

This edition features numerous in-text illustrations and 28 full page black-and-white illustrations, including an illustrated frontispiece, and four green line illustrations to endpapers. Collated, complete.

This volume contains a selection of some of Aesop's best known fables, such as: "The Dog in the Manger", "The Lion and the Mouse", "The Crow and the Pitcher", "The Fox and the Grapes", "The Wolf and the Lamb", and "The Fox and the Crow" to name a few.

Aesop was a storyteller who is thought to have lived in ancient Greece around the 6th century BCE. He is best known for his collection of fables featuring anthropomorphic animals that illustrate moral lessons of honesty, wisdom and kindness. These fables have become enduring classics, continuing to be shared with generation after generation.