1909 The Fables of Aesop

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Slipcase

The first trade edition of Detmold's edition of the fables.

Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-two further tipped in colour plates by Edward Julius Detmold, a prolific late Victorian era book illustrator.

Collated, complete.

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. 

Housed in a cloth slip case.