1954 Aesop's Fables

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

In the publisher's original pictorial hardback.

With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.

This edition provides a collection of Aesop's timeless tales, thoughtfully curated and adapted for young readers. This edition features 47 fables and a foreword by the author. Each fable is richly illustrated with charming facsimile pencil colour drawings, with additional illustrations to endpapers, by Tony Palazzo. Collated, complete.

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.